Just get the uniform on, come out, take a few ground balls, swing the bat, just like anybody else. I don't, for the first four or five days, look for guys to be going full-bore. |
Lance is a good hitter, |
Lane was the only one to hit the ball hard. |
Last year shows really how good he is. I wouldn't say he was at his best physically, and he had a great year. |
Last year, he was incredibly good, and this year he struggled a little bit early. But when it came to crunch time, he started coming on. |
Let's just say I felt he was the man to go to. And he came through for us big. |
Let's see how he feels tomorrow. That's about kind of what I expected based on (the fact) he's been throwing off and on every other day basically for the last week. |
Lost in all that was Andy pitched seven shutout innings. |
make your pitches, (it) doesn't matter if we walk him. |
Maybe that's when I'll use [Mike] Gallo. They've got a bunch of left-handed hitters over there. |
Morgan Ensberg got hot and some other guys started swinging the bats a little bit. |
Most teams love seeing the bases loaded, nobody out. We seem to have a little trouble with it. We fought in the game, though. We had other opportunities, perhaps, to do some things. We just couldn't break through. |
Munson had a nice spring training. If he continues to swing the bat like he's been doing in spring training and give us a threat, then that's a good thing. |
My bat head was there, which means I can get to the pitch. But against a guy who throws that hard, you need to get your bat down because you can't elevate the pitch. |
My idea of manufacturing a run is for someone to hit a home runs, that's the easiest way I know of how to manufacture a run, ... You don't always have a team filled with home run hitters. When you don't, you have to score runs in other ways and the stolen base is one of those ways. |