Kolb came in and had a clean inning. It was good to get Kolb off on the right foot - he's going to be a big part of our bullpen. |
Left-handers don't bother him. He has faced them all his life. |
Lehr was up seven straight times, ready to come in (for certain situations). Getting up and sitting back down takes more out of you than coming in games. You can't keep doing that. |
Look who did the damage. That's where we're at right now. We've got those kids and they're producing. |
looked like an impossible task. |
Looks are deceiving at times. Sometimes, they're not. |
No. 1, I didn't really have anybody (available) I can trust to bunt, |
Not everybody is cut out to be a Cardinal. There's a certain standard, a certain type of player you have to be if you're going to play on that team. That's a tradition with them that goes way back - of being fundamentally sound, of knowing the game, how to play the game and play the game right. |
Not knowing who's going to be the starter, the other two guys will probably fall back in and be in the pen. It depends on who has the most versatility to fill those spots. |
Not only are they so good talent-wise, they're so good in every phase of the game. You come in here and play them, you know they're not going to beat themselves. They're going to play the game hard and they're going to play the game right. If you sit back and wait for them to make mistakes so you can win a game, you're going to be in trouble. |
Off a hair, (and) his pitch count got up high. But his stuff was excellent. |
One run there is a huge run, ... You give up five, but you still have 27 cracks at a young kid. |
Our bullpen has gotten straightened out now and there's no sense in having [Adams] up here growing stagnant. He's a guy we want throwing on a regular basis, because if something were to happen, we feel like he's a guy who could help us. |
Our guys, what they're doing is they're fighting real hard to try to get out of it. It's defeating the purpose. |
Pitch counts have gotten into everybody's brain. Guys make so much money now. You want to protect your investment. You don't want to abuse your pitchers. |