...the ending's gonna be great. That's what I'm convinced of. |
(Zambrano) struggled early. He made a couple young mistakes. I guess that comes with young players. He started working his breaking ball and had them off-balance. In the sixth and seventh, he probably had his best stuff. Fortunately, we got a couple runs in the top of the seventh. |
[After Greg Maddux met the required number of combined innings pitched over two seasons to lock in his 2006 option, he said Wednesday he would like to come back] if they want me. ... I'd love to have him back. |
[Cedeno] said he felt a little strange being on that side of the bag. |
[Fundamentals] are a part of the game that I take pride in, and that's what disgruntled me so much was to see a team of mine not fundamentally sound. That was a first. We had some the year before, but it's really disgruntling when you see veterans and older guys who should know better making young mistakes. You can take it from the young guys, but it's hard to take from veterans. |
[Jones] knew what he was getting into when he got here. He and [Hawkins] are good friends. |
[Prior] said he's feeling better. He had his physical therapist here and wasn't feeling the pain that he was feeling before. |
[The arm] is the first thing you think about, but it wasn't that. They said he was fine enough to exercise afterward. He might be back [today]. This late in the spring, you are always apprehensive about everything. |
[The players] know what I'm doing. I told them in a meeting [Saturday] that I have to do some things in this situation that we have here that I might not ordinarily do in order to preserve this or in order to preserve that. Their job is not to like it, necessarily, but their job is to go along with it and understand it. That's part of being the boss. |
[Time's] not running out yet. He's progressing, that's what we want. Nothing's wrong, nothing hurts. It's just a matter of him getting on the mound. |
[Williams] was real good one time, then the next time equally as bad. You just want to get some consistency. |
[With more night games at home,] You get to do 'life stuff,' like go to the laundry, go to the bank, go to the car wash, go shopping, ... Things you don't get a chance to do when you're playing day games. You're always conscious here of oversleeping because you can wake up in a panic, especially if it's cloudy and dark outside, and you're like, 'Oh, man.' Or if it gets sunny real early, you're jumping out of bed at 6 o'clock. |
20 hits. That does not happen once or twice a year. |
A big blow to us. |
A couple balls caught too much of the plate early, ... We were still in the ballgame, and we ended up giving away like four runs on defense. You can't give away runs in the big leagues. We didn't play very good defense today. |