With their hitters, you can't afford to do that. |
Yeah, everybody in the top deck had cigarette lighters. |
You almost expect what you saw tonight every night. How are you going to take him out of that game? |
You can't walk them 8 and 9 guys. They're the guys you've got to get out, |
You feel so happy when a guy reaches that plateau. The fire and energy he brings to the club is something special. |
You got to pitch and stay ahead of the guys. He got hurt. |
You have rules, and you expect each player to do what he's expected to do. When they don't, you do something about it. When you do, you're a bad guy. |
You have to know he was in a lot of grief. But he's a pro. He's always the same old Roger. He's a first-ballot Hall of Famer. |
You have to tip your cap to Andy Pettitte. He kept us at bay. Pitching is going to win. Theirs was better than ours tonight. |
You saw both clubs arguing about the calls. So take it from there. That's all I have to say. |
You see what we're putting out there. Give them credit. They're scraping and scraping. We were just one hit away, which has basically been the story of our season, one hit away from breaking some games open. |
You see what we're putting out there. Who would have expected to get all these injuries the last 2 1/2 weeks when you're in (the playoff race). |
You shouldn't be throwing 100 pitches in five or six innings. |
You've got a 4-1 lead, give it to guys like Jim Bunning, Bob Gibson or Dontrelle (Willis), you'll close them out. |
You've got to close them out. Good pitchers win those games. |