I think we all feel pretty confident in the guys who are going, and we've all grown pretty used to playing with them. |
I was just trying to stay aggressive and try not to fall behind in the count. |
I wouldn't say I'm surprised. You just deal with it. |
I wouldn't say it surprised me, but you have to stay ready. On nights like this when you get the opportunity, you want to be ready. Sometimes it works for you and sometimes it doesn't. |
If guys get in a slump, they go buy a more expensive bat, thinking they're going to do better. Some guys constantly rotate bats. |
If we can continue to keep playing better like we did the last half of the trip, I think we can look at our record and say we'll be OK. We got something out of it; we got on a roll. We started to pick things up a little bit. If we can continue to play well, that 5-5 [trip] was worth it. |
In the playoffs, you're going to see good pitching so it's going to take everybody. But having Garret swing the bat like that will be big for us. |
It has to be that way. We've done it before, when you go through a streak and rely on one guy and the offense doesn't work that way. |
It is a little early to speculate or for this to be an issue. You don't have the 3-4 at-bats that you normally would so if I get up, I'll just try and be aggressive. That works for me anyway. |
It was a little more quiet than usual. Everybody respected everybody's wish to get a little sleep. Card games went from 10 guys to three or four guys. |
It was not very well played by us. It is tough to expect a win when we don't play very well. |
It's a little bit more than that. You can't rely on calls from the umpires to win you some games. I think we understand that. |
It's frustrating to not be able to put a roll together, ... really frustrating. |
It's half them and half us. They've got some great pitchers, but at the same time, we stink right now at the plate. And if we keep doing that, tomorrow is the last day. |
It's not surprising. There's a history of guys like that running into a game where they figure it out. It was pretty impressive. |