There are certain guys you can't lose, and 'Trace' is one of those guys. |
There was a little extra sock in his bat. We were kidding him a little bit . . . He said he's got another mouth to feed. |
There you have it -- three games. Huge for us. Doesn't matter [because Tuesday] is a whole new day, but it feels nice to win more than two. |
There's still some uncertainty there. We've struggled a little bit pitching this spring. Certainly we have a lot of options to look at. |
These guys (the Padres) have a nice lead. Everybody has to play well against them. They're the ones that are certainly the front runners by a pretty good margin right now. |
These kind of games like this, when you get the crowd that we did, you really want to win those games, you want to set a tone. We didn't play very well at home last year, we played much better on the road, so you want to get your fans behind you, have a nice exciting day that you win. We just fell a little bit short. |
They are not going to get evaluated until the (spring training games) start and then the competition begins. Guys try to do too much sometimes before the games start. |
They didn't get any hits off him. He's lighting that [radar] gun up to 95 or 96 [mph], cutting through their lineup and giving up no hits. Everything you've heard about him, we certainly saw yesterday. |
They should get better and better. When you get off to the start they've had, especially with the young guys, their confidence grows. The expectations get higher and higher. They've got a good thing going over there. |
They understand we're in a precarious position right now as far as trying to get some other guys in some games and get a look at them yet still go out there and try to be as competitive as you can, |
This didn't change our feelings at all. We feel he can be a big-league guy. I wouldn't hesitate to have him on my staff if there was room. But sometimes you've got to wait your turn. |
This does nothing but make us better, ... He's great at identifying, during a game, any mechanical problems a pitcher is having. He can go out there and talk to a guy and get him refocused on making his pitches. |
This does nothing but make us better. He's great at identifying, during a game, any mechanical problems a pitcher is having. He can go out there and talk to a guy and get him refocused on making his pitches. |
This game here tonight is just as important as the game tomorrow against San Diego. We need to win games, we need to win a lot of games between here and the end. |
This is a guy that, you think about the Arizona Diamondbacks, and Luis Gonzalez is the face of the team. |