When you win with the frequency that they did, you're playing with a lot of confidence. That adrenaline takes you a pretty good ways. All of a sudden you start losing, and maybe you start doubting yourself a little bit. Outside of that, it's a nice ball club with some nice talent over there. |
When you're last in the league in pitching and errors it's not a good combination to win games, there's a direct correlation to it. |
Whoever the organization wants to bring up is fine with me, |
With his grandmother passing away, I don't think it was conducive to his best concentration. I think he learned a little bit from that experience. You just don't throw that get-me-over curveball, especially to a team that's swinging the bat as well as Boston. |
With the way the lineup's set up, we have our best two speed guys there, |
With young pitchers, you're going to get what you saw tonight at times. |
You always have regrets, but I needed to get close to home. My dad passed away this spring; I spent some valuable time with him. I had a couple of other things that were pressing ... Now, I'm a little freer again. |
You are paying those late-inning specialists a lot of money, and if you don't use them and lose the game, you have a lot of questions to answer. |
You can't expect to walk five, six hitters every time you go out there and expect to win at the big league level. It's impossible. The last few times he's pitched, we've beaten up our bullpen. If we get another one like that, we'll try to find a replacement for him, too. |
You know, what happened is a shame, That's about all I have to say about it. |
You look at his starts, and there's always one big crooked number. For him to take the next step forward as a major-league pitcher, he's got to correct some of these things. |
You look forward to the ballgame a little more, knowing that you can sidetrack somebody's chances. |
You're down to under 20 games (to play), whatever degree you have to turn it up to, it's time. |
You're down to under 20 games [remaining]. Whatever degrees you got to turn it up to, now is the time to do it. They look more focused. |
You've got to have the right pieces to do that. That's what a manager's supposed to do if he has the right pieces. |