Guys like Nomar (Garciaparra) and (Todd) Walker, we faced him in the American League, and we're like, 'I don't remember him being like that.' |
Hopefully, everything goes according to plan, |
I definitely want to play, ... The doctors said it was a 'one in a million' [type thing]. It's a freak thing. It happened. Now I've got to deal with it. |
I never got hit in the head before, but I want to get back there as soon as possible — really kind of get back on the horse, so to speak. |
If [Lowe] leaves it up, he can get hit. But if he starts it in the middle of the plate and just breaks down about a foot, there's nothing you can do. When he's pitching like that, like he did in the playoffs, it's hard to square up. |
It's not the role we want to be in, playing the spoiler, ... but it's all we've got. |
We can't feel sorry for ourselves because other teams aren't feeling sorry for us. |
We definitely need to take care of business here. |
We talk about it in here, |
We were right there on the doorstep, but we just couldn't finish it. The guys were having great at-bats over the last few innings ... especially those who came off the bench. |