[Armas] threw very well -- nice and loose. He was in the strike zone, good location. It was a nice five innings. |
[In this park], you got to hit it sharply, you got to hit line drives and stay away from the big part of the field. |
[Keep it down: Cuddly old Nationals manager Frank Robinson is at it again. He has banned music, cell phones and card playing in the clubhouse, believing that will help his players focus more on baseball. Robinson won't even let his team play music after they win.] They asked, and I refused, ... I said: 'No, you haven't done anything yet. Turn it on Oct. 1 or Oct. 3.' |
[Manager Frank Robinson has a simple strategy for dealing with San Francisco slugger Barry Bonds, who comes to RFK Stadium tonight with the Giants.] Go after him, ... Make your pitches and go get him out. |
[Patterson] was on top of his game tonight. The sad part about that is he deserved better. |
[Robinson, though, sent him back out to pitch the fourth.] It's one of those things, ... You look for two [innings] out of him. He gives you two, he's capable of going three. He gets three, so let's see what he can do. See if you can get one more out of him. |
[The fans] didn't have much to get rowdy about. That's the way it goes when you don't get men on base. |
[Zimmerman] had been struggling. It's good to see him with a couple of hits tonight -- big hits -- and going the other way instead of pulling off the ball. |
A lot of guys said he was off the wall, he's crazy. I found him to be a guy with a lot of energy. He played the game hard. He just wanted to go out and play. Sometimes his emotion got in the way. He would lose control and tear things. I talked to him and reasoned with him. I listened to him. We developed a fondness for each other. I admire him for the way he goes about his work. |
A lot of teams are using emergency starters this time of year, ... but we have two 'openings' in our rotation instead of just one and, right now, they come back to back. |
A pitcher can be the leader among the pitchers and be there for anyone who wants to approach him. But he is not that one guy who will go to a hitter and get in his face. Sometimes you need a leader and arms of that leader on the pitching staff, bullpen and the reserves. A position player can cross the line and doesn't mind going over to talk to the pitchers. But pitchers are kind of hesitant to go over to the offensive side of it. |
A real big spot for us. |
A rivalry has to be cultivated. This, in time, could be. |
About this ballpark? The dimensions? The answer is no. |
Absolutely, I knew it was a good move. If we needed to make a move at shortstop, it wouldn't be a drop-off defensively. ... We didn't have that last year. |