Adrian's been trying real hard to hit home runs. (Before Tuesday) it wasn't happening. He's been overswinging a lot. |
After he went after people and threw strikes, for whatever reason, Franklin started nibbling. He was falling behind and walking people ... for whatever reason. |
After the walks some people will wonder why Carl swung at the first pitch, but I didn't have a problem with it. We had one of our big guns at the plate. I'd rather have him swinging there. |
All parts of his game have advanced. |
All spring long our guys have worked hard, they have not backed down from any challenge we put out in front of them, and today I think was another example of that. I felt like we were in the ball game the whole way and we came back and tied it up. If we play like that every day, we're going to win a lot of ball games. |
All the walls Jeremy was running into finally took its toll. Jose hurt his wrist taking early batting practice. |
All those prayers I offered up have paid off. I'm anticipating him being ready opening day. He'll be ready, if he can physically do it. We were looking at 4 to 6 weeks, and now we're looking at 3 to 5 days. So it's not too bad. |
Allowing him get to third base in the first place wasn't a real building block, but J.J. did a great job. He got a big strikeout against one of the best hitters in the league in Teixeira. Being able to keep that run from scoring, obviously, was huge. It was a big lift for us. It turned out to be a key part of why we won the game. |
And depending on how it goes, we may get [ Matt ] Lawton in, too. |
And then you could see him pull back, take a little more time on the mound and find a way to get the hitter out instead of just throwing harder. He learned from that experience There are 25-, 30-year-old pitchers who don't learn like that. The whole baseball world is in front of him if he wants it. |
Any time you try to break a streak like we're in, it's going to be tough, especially when you're playing a team that's won six straight like they have. |
Any time you've lost like four games and get a win against a hot club like Cleveland, it's going to be a night like tonight. But yeah, we'll take it. |
Are there things we can help with? There are. Will we? Yeah. We probably already have. |
Are we as good a hitters as we were in the first four games? I don't know. Are we as bad as the last two? No ... we are somewhere in the middle. |
As a competitor, Danny wasn't flashy. He was one of those who made people around him better and there are good players who don't do that. |