Playing .500 is the first step. Eventually, we're trying to get to where we can contend with St. Louis for the division. I'd rather have a winning record. We're tired of being labeled a loser for the last 12 years. We want to get past that. We don't want anybody calling us a loser again. |
Poor Jenkins, he was distraught yesterday. He was having a monster year. We're having fun; we're in the midst of a 10-game winning streak, and he was enjoying himself. |
Power-arm guys in spring training generally take a little longer. |
Really, we had three pretty good games. Rick Helling definitely gave us that opportunity for that to happen today. He had seven real strong innings. He has done a real nice job with his opportunities. |
Rick did a good job in Triple-A, and he came up here and has done everything we've asked him to do. We'll give him a shot at it. |
Rick Helling did a nice job. (He) had little spurts where he got out of sync a little bit. He made good adjustments and would get out of it. |
Rickie got a curve ball up in the fourth and hammered it. That was a big part of the ballgame. |
Rickie got a curveball up a little bit and he hammered it. It was a big part of the game. |
Rodriguez was really good today. The last time we faced him he was just OK. |
Sometimes when a young pitcher gets to the point where he's pitching pretty good, he thinks he's being lucky. (Capuano) is realizing he's pitching good because he is good. |
That cost us a run. We had a couple things that didn't go right tonight, but we won. |
That is the class of the National League for the last 14 years. It's pretty big. We've never even won a series at home against them, much less a sweep. We played good, consistent baseball to do it -- with pitching, good timely hitting. It was a nice series. |
That shows the kind of hitter he is. |
That shows you why we feel good about where we're going. |
That was a huge sigh of relief, |