Balls Quotes

"It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling"

"The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine."

"To be blunt, we have to stop hanging breaking balls to him."

"The first inning, I tried to figure out where the strike zone was, where he was calling balls and where he wasn't, where I could work around. The first and second inning, really, was to figure out where the hitters were standing and where to throw them out."

"I also decided to take a few chances when the balls were pitched short. Luckily it worked, even though one or two shots went flying over the wicketkeeper's head. When you get runs against weaker countries you aren't always that appreciative but when you make runs against the Aussies it feels really good."

"I think we're progressing well. We're seeing the balls caught in front of the secondary and they have leverage. Now we need to work on finishing and tackling at a higher level."

"When he hit it, I had a good break on it. It seemed like one of those balls that kept going downward as I got closer, and then I was caught. I thought I'd have a chance to dive and catch it, but then as I did that, it pushed away from me."

"I felt like we swung at a lot of balls and took a lot of strikes. Tonight, he struck out three in the first but after that we made that adjustment, where we swung at the strikes and took the balls, and obviously it made a big difference."

"He didn't have command of anything, ... He got away with some hanging breaking balls early, but he didn't get away with the one he threw to Barajas. It wasn't a good night for Felix."

"He's bowling 150km/h most balls. There's a very small margin for error there."

"He's low on the velocity side. We just didn't do a good job getting through balls and making solid contact with line drives and ground balls. Guys like that who throw slow ... your swing gets long and you get under it."

"We got a lot of loose balls and tipped rebounds. Our big guys did a good job down low. That ... proved to be the difference in the game."

"These guys are busting their chops. They're really going after it. And when they're not taking ground balls, they're in the outfield playing balls off the bat. [On Monday], Luis Ordaz was soaked to the bone running after balls in the outfield. So, yeah, they're working at it. They know what that means. They know what Joe wants and expects. It's just helping them."

"Brady and Mo put up some crazy numbers. I just caught a couple of balls, but those two were going crazy. They were scoring touchdowns left and right."

"We just took too many strikes and swung at too many balls. Give Keegan credit. Once, they got three runs, I knew it would be an uphill battle."

"It was close, but I had it. You don't trap balls with your hand like that. When I came up there was no dirt or grass on the ball."

"We just kind of stuck the bats out there, and balls started falling in."

"I promised him that I would get him four game balls. I'm glad that I could fulfill the promises that I made to him."

"Not too many of them were well-hit balls, mostly just looping singles over the infield. They just hit it where we weren't."

"He didn't have command of anything. He got away with some hanging breaking balls early, but he didn't get away with the one he threw to Barajas. It wasn't a good night for Felix."