That was the first time that coming out of his hand almost every pitch looked like a strike and then the ball would move. It was very promising. |
That's the most life I've seen in El Duque's fastball, but he seemed to lose it after 100 pitches. |
The young pitchers have struggled some, but they need to go out there and establish themselves. If you want to be around next year, you have to go out and pitch. That's the bottom line. I hope we continue doing that and these guys develop into quality guys on our staff. |
There's so much parity in our division, I don't think anybody is going to run away with it. Even though we're not playing our best baseball, we're staying close. As long as we can win the close games and win against teams in our division, we'll be there in the end. |
They're quality guys with quality arms. They're guys who have been around for a while and have been successful. They're winners. That kind of experience is nice to have. |
Whenever you play teams fighting for the playoffs, good quality teams, you want to try to win series, and we were able to do that here, |