(Jesse) has been inconsistent and that's a concern. He's had four outings this spring. Half have been good and half bad, and it seems to alternate. We need to address the issue of inconsistency. |
A good game for us, although I was worried about Eddie [Guardado] in the ninth, he was out of sync so much. Not only did we get key hits late, but we had real good pitching and got key outs when we needed. |
a good kid whose heart is in the right place, who made a mistake two years ago. |
A grown man hit that ball today. |
A lot of guys wouldn't have done that. |
A pretty impressive debut, rough luck there in the first inning, but he threw the ball well. He got better as he went along. We'll increase his pitch count the next outing. |
About this time, with an opening or two on the bench and the same in the bullpen, things start to get interesting. |
Absolutely. He handles the pitching staff very well. He has an idea out there and sticks with a game plan. We'd like to see him hit more, but there's time for that. |
Actually, Ryan was in a little room that's right behind the dugout. He was ranting and raving back there, just doing what every player since Abner Doubleday has done. |
Adrian's a good player, |
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. |