You spend any time around him, he doesn't act, look anything like an 18-year-old kid. He's got a lot of savvy. You can tell he's been around a family and brother who's been in the big leagues. He handles himself very well. |
You talk about momentum swings. That one could be really devastating with the pitcher getting a hit and then all of a sudden we come back into the dugout tied. We didn't knock the cover off the ball after that, but certainly it kept it manageable and [gave us] an uplifting feeling. |
You think if you do your job, you will end up somewhere. |
You want them to get a taste for this. You're an organization. It's not just the big leagues and then the minor leagues. It's all one big process. |
You want to get into the bullpen. We're watching the pitch count go up, hits are at a premium and we're not even seeing too many balls up. We're trying to get him out of the game, and we do, and we had an opportunity right there. |
You'd think he was a 2-handicap golfer the way he keeps golfing those balls over the right-field fence, ... It certainly was a situation where we could use a big hit like that. We had some opportunities - probably more than they did - but it only takes one big hit. |
You're not going to win many games getting two hits. |
You're not going to win many games getting two hits. . . . I don't know what we could have done differently. We just didn't get a whole lot of good swings. |
You've got to try to put your best foot forward. Not that Nippert wouldn't have a chance against them, (but) you like to run most of your veterans out there against a team that's in first place and in contention to win the division. |