Kelvim just shined in his big innings tonight. He gave us big pitches and strong innings out of the bullpen, and that's why he's down there in the pen. |
Kelvim just shined the whole night, ... That gives us a big lift. It's one of the reasons we have him down there, for depth. |
Kenny Rogers is as tough as there is on us. He changes speeds and spots his fastball. He doesn't have the stuff that he used to, but he's a better pitcher. |
Kenny's a fine manager. He was my vote for manager of the year. |
Mac is a guy, like any guy with a bigger swing, that will have to work through a little bit of a timing issue. |
Mac's been struggling lately. Nobody works harder than he does. (The homer) was not only big for his confidence, but it was big for the team. |
Mixed in with that early inconsistency were flashes of brilliance that lit everybody's eyes up. |
No, I'm not in favor of replay at all. |
No, no, no, no,'' he said. |
Nobody worked harder than Maz. I know he worked very, very hard at getting that team and their whole organization going in the right direction. But when it doesn't happen, you're accountable. That's the life of anybody who's in this position. If you're not moving the organization forward, they make you pass the baton to somebody else. |
None of our pitchers are in Chicago. We're going to use every pitcher we need tonight to get past tonight's game. |
Nothing is going to change how we go about our business. I don't think there is any pressing need to know right now. |
Obviously, it wasn't by design then and it's not by design now. We're going to do what we need to do. We have to keep playing our game and we've obviously got to do a little bit better job offensively. They jumped us early and they pitched well after that. |
Of all the options we were looking at this gives us the best overall depth. |
On the confidence end, it was nice to see some guys contributing, ... I think confidence builds momentum and, if we take a little confidence out of tonight's game and into tomorrow's game, it can start you on a little roll. |