That's just the beginning of what we can do as a team. |
The guy was pretty slow to the plate once I got to second. The second time, I don't think (Valentin) wanted to throw to third after throwing it into left the first time. |
They had a hand over the division for the last couple [or] three years, and it's always good to set a tone early that it's hopefully going to be a different story this year. We got a long ways to go, but any time you can get a win against teams in your division, it's big and definitely against these guys, because you know they'll be in it at the end. |
They had the timely hits, and they made the most of their opportunities and we didn't. Our offense is a lot better than it's displayed. |
They handled us the last couple of times. They're confident they can go out and beat us, and beat us here. If we go out and play a good game tomorrow, take that game and win the series, then it will be an all right little home stretch. |
They've been picking me up all year. So it's good for me to help those guys out a bit. |
This was only the first game, but this game it was evident that once you get guys on base, it causes havoc. It's not just me, it's anybody. That's my intent to start off the game, not necessarily with a triple, but to have a good at-bat and let the offense take it from there. |
We didn't make him make any adjustments, so he pitched off his fastball all day long. He had no pressure on him whatsoever. |
We just didn't move the ball offensively, we just didn't get it done. We didn't get on base. We didn't really do anything today. |
We need to go at them and attack them. That's the mentality we have to have. |
We never got too low, ... Even the low points, we never lost seven or eight in a row. We've always been able to keep the lowness out of it. We never got too high, but we never got too low. |
We realize this was a bad loss tonight, and we've got to come out tomorrow ready to play, |
We're all right -- but nobody likes to get their butts kicked. Who's to say we can't go on a tear? Definitely, we miss [Lee]. No sense talking about it every day. He's not coming back until after the All-Star break. |
We're not counting us out. I know a lot of people will with [Mark] Prior and [Kerry] Wood on the shelf and now a major part of our offense out, but I think we have enough guys to keep them at bay until those guys come back. |
We're playing all the teams that are right there with us. You can handle your business and control your destiny. That's what you want to do in September. This is the road trip to do that. |