All day it was just a matter of us cutting down on the walks. It seemed like every time we walked someone, they scored. |
All day, it was a matter of us cutting down on walks. Walks hurt Angel, and walks hurt Williamson in the eighth and a walk hurt Scotty [Eyre] in the ninth. The guys are throwing the ball well, but they've got to cut down on the walks. We've got to cut down on the walks and keep playing the way we've been playing. |
An older club tends to get it together later than a young club. Just like spring training. Young guys, two weeks, they're ready to go. Where the older guys, it takes them longer to get their timing. |
And he has to work on his base stealing. We were told that when he gets thrown out, he shuts it down. He'll be fine. He left with a good attitude and thanked us for the amount of playing time that he got. |
As long as Hank doesn't mind, I don't mind. |
At this point, it's hard to imagine him not pitching forever. |
At this point, we're grooming him as a starter. That's why we got him. It's not like we have a surplus of starters. |
At this point, we're taking it slow. We're trying to get him on a course and program to be ready for his start Opening Day. We don't know if he'll be second or third on the list, but we're trying to get him ready. |
Back in our day, they called this 'salary drive,' ... Try and continue to have a good year and win as many games as you can win. You are playing for respectability right now. What I'm looking for is you play hard and play for love of the game and respect and try to finish as high as you can. |
Baseball's not separate from the world. (Racism) is real. Nobody wants to talk about it. You don't hear guys talk in depth too much, especially minority guys, because you get accused of playing the race card. |
Be more specific of who you are talking about. Yeah, I talked to Walk. We got it straight. |
Besides, ... I knew his family had come down to see him, and I wanted to get him in the game. |
Big weekend for Sean, Jerome and Glendon. We have to get some guys going and preserve our bullpen. The better our starters can be, the better for all of us. |
Big Z had trouble feeling the ball. He couldn't feel it in his fingers. We were hoping to get five innings out of Z and then go to the bullpen. |
Boy, that was a great comeback victory especially after we kind of gave it to them in the (sixth) inning with those two runs. |