Bruce does a nice job of putting pressure on (slow-delivery) guys like Webb. |
But I was told he would be used more. |
But Kelly, being a veteran, you know he's going to give you a good defensive performance and add to the offense that, at times, we've been missing. He's given us a spark that way. |
By far the best we've seen him. Like most veteran guys, everything starts to build — increased velocity, a sharper bite on his breaking ball, the whole bit. |
Casey Daigle is really starting to climb the ladder around here. |
Certainly good pitching sets the tone for everything. |
Certainly he's a force. Whether or not he's in the lineup, he'll make you think about what you're going to do. ... I think emotionally it could be a big lift for them. |
Certainly it was his best outing. It was something to build on. |
Conor gets a big hit and that kind of opened the floodgates. Obviously the hit by Conor was the at-bat of the game. |
Early on it looked like everyone was swinging the bat and hitting the ball hard and then later on, defense and pitching came into play. |
El Duque was missing bats. It looked like his velocity was up early in the game. Usually it kind of takes him a while to get into that. But right away we were seeing mid-to-upper 80s, sharp breaking ball. It was probably the best stuff I've seen him have all year. |
Every team is aware of that, and that's why you have a series of signs when you have a man on second. |
Everybody feels good right now. To keep climbing, keep clawing and keep playing hard is a nice feel-good for the organization. |
Everybody has their own little quirks and ways of doing things. He likes to bark. |
Everybody knows he can swing the bat. I think with a full year in left, he'll be ready to go. He might have been a little hesitant when we first put him out there. That's why I'm not moving him around. I'm sticking him in left so he can get the angles down, and he's done very well. |