We've got five teams with 80 wins. Go look and see how many divisions have all 80-win teams. That means our division is the tightest and the toughest. |
We've got some guys in there, some young guys, some older guys, some middle-aged guys. We've got guys who've been around. We've got some guys who are new. I think all those guys know exactly where we're at. |
We've got to get better, and we will. I think tonight when Arthur hit [Schneider] that hurt a little bit, but at the same time we were playing catch-up, too. We didn't score enough runs or hit the ball good enough to catch up. |
We've got to keep going. We've got one more game in the regular season, and we've got to win tomorrow. That's all. |
We've got to play better, |
We've gotta get our act together and start winning games again. We've lost five games in a row, and right now we're in a tough situation. We're not out of this, but [this] loss was disheartening. |
We've just got to see where Bell's at [on Sunday]. |
We've shown that we're for real. We're staying right there and battling. |
We've stayed after it. We don't give in. We don't crumble. We have a lot of determination. We talk about that a lot. It comes back to having fun. When you don't tighten up, you don't think about losing. |
What got us going was that we scored some runs and hit with runners in scoring position. The bottom of the lineup scored some runs. If the bottom of our lineup can hit, we're going to score some runs. |
What was I supposed to do? Go out there and tackle him? |
What was my reaction? We had him. I came back here and ran the video a couple of times. |
When (right-hander) Lidge is on the mound, throwing 90 miles-per-hour sliders, he eats righties up, ... We needed a base hit there. We didn't need a home run. Chavez puts the ball in play. The more I thought about it, more I realized I couldn't have done much different to get Howard up on the righty (in the seventh). |
When [Bell] got here, I told him the job is his to lose. I don't see how he lost his job. But at the same time, he's got to hold his job. Sooner or later, we're going to have to see him play. |
When he got in trouble, he got better. Whether we helped him, I don't know. We just couldn't get the hit when we needed it. |