This was nothing new. He just continued what he's been doing all spring. |
Those guys should be proud, for what they had to do to accomplish that. They started out with a great team, a very talented group of kids. By the end, we had taken all their best players, and they still persevered through it and found ways to win a championship. |
Those kind of games come down to one big hit, ... It was a great game. |
Those kind of games come down to one big hit. Helling and Oswalt both pitched outstanding, and then Lidge came in and did an awesome job. Dana battled to get two outs and then got a pitch up to Bagwell and that was it. It was a great game. |
To beat a pitcher the caliber of Tim Hudson is a big boost for us. This is what good teams do. |
To fall behind 2-0 and then come back and score two runs and then again to fall back by four runs, making it 6-2, and tying it up in the bottom of that innings against the guy the caliber of Carpenter is a good feeling. We had a lot of timely hits. Overbay and Billy Hall had big nights. Even Cappy had two big hits to help his cause. |
To get six outs like that in that situation was every bit as big as anything else that happened. |
To get this win off of a guy the caliber of Chris Carpenter , it's just a huge win for us. We had timely hits and big nights out of J.J. (Hardy), Overbay, and Billy (Hall). |
To win 14 consecutive years is like Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting [streak], ... It's a record that's never going to be broken. |
To win 14 consecutive years is like Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting [streak]. It's a record that's never going to be broken. |
Tommy was vintage. He was as good as I've seen him in a long time. |
Tomo was very crisp today. He was sharp, he was throwing his fastball as hard as he has all year. |
Vargas came out on his game today and just shut us down offensively. We couldn't get anything going. He was hitting his spots real well. |
Vargas was on his game today. We had some good swings and hit some balls on the nose, but we just hit them straight up. |
We beat [Johan] Santana -- and we should have beat him twice, |