[Clement] kept us in the game, and we weren't able to get it done defensively. |
As heart-wrenching as it was on us [Saturday], to blow that lead, to come back, this team just plays with round shoulders and goes out the next day and battles. It's big. It's big that we're still able to do and believe that we can still do that. |
Ask me in a month. Right now I just feel like I let my teammates down when I pinch hit. |
At some point, he will hit a bump in the road, but he is very well equipped to bounce back if that situation arises. He'll be fine. It's not by accident he's having success. |
By no means have we had an easy season. It's been a freakin' grind for us. |
For the most part, [Schilling] threw the ball pretty well, but they just capitalized on one mistake. |
Given all the people's contracts that are up, we've got to get somebody in there. We've got to find a way to right the ship. And we've got to start from the top down. |
He battled and kept us in that game. We just couldn't break it open. |
He did an excellent job in that situation. He mixed up his pitches. He located real well. |
He executed his pitches real well. If he pitches like that, he's going to win a lot of games. |
He had good stuff. It was a matter of just honing it in to where he wanted to throw it. |
He had some rough times last year. Is he probably in his tip-top precision? He threw the ball well. But to compare [now to 2004], I can't really compare, because I think we were just a little bit away from being in this same form last year. We had little things happen here and there. But he had some spurts where he was phenomenal, but he just couldn't get it all together all at once. |
He hit me pretty solid. |
He just kept us in the game, plain and simple. They were taking good swings early, but not as good of swings later. He settled into his game real good. His stuff was electric, there's no question. I'll take one run every time someone takes the ball. |
He seems upbeat and he's here so I'm not going to make a big issue out of it. I guarantee you, if he's here in uniform, he's going to compete because he's done nothing but compete throughout his career. |