It's kind of been perplexing not to be able to get Matt the at-bats. |
It's never easy to see guys like that leave the game. He provided a lot of thrills for his fans and a lot of chills for opposing managers. He certainly had a Hall of Fame career. |
It's not a stretch we're happy with. But we've been in one of those stretches where it seems a lot of bad things happen, when they all come back to bite you in the butt — hard. |
It's not just tonight; it's the culmination of a lot of things. There's time for patience. And then there's time to call them on this (garbage). |
It's not very typical of him to miss as badly as he missed. That was an indication that he was feeling it tonight. But he shut them down pretty good and came back and threw well. |
It's only three games, but yeah, we like what we've seen of Lopez there. We've seen enough to leave him batting second for a while, at least. |
It's something I think he really wants to obtain and we want him to do it. [Saturday night] put a good dent into the total he has to get. We would like for him to get to the 200-hit level. |
It's the first time he has done that so I would think it's an aberration. He has pitched very well for us so far. It was one of those nights. |
It's the first time I've ever seen anybody play the field with a shinguard on. He kept saying it was fine and that he was feeling better. If he'd have said it was the same or getting worse, I'd have taken him out of the game. |
It's the same old record and I'm getting tired of playing it. It's still early. We've got to keep telling ourselves that. But there comes to a point in time where that excuse no longer works. |
It's time one of the left-handers stood up. It's time for one to separate himself from the pack. But no one's done it so far. |
It's too early to determine where we stand. It's something we want to work out. So we'll see how it goes and we'll give it every chance to succeed. |
It's too soon to say A, B, C and D are going to happen. We have different options and different ways to go. |
It's tough to judge a pitcher on a day like this. You give up a fly ball and the wind just carries the ball a lot deeper. It's tough for pitchers to be fine, too. |
J.J has pitched well. He got a bit excited when he got two strikes on Newhan and he started to overthrow. Then he threw a good low third strike. |