Don Buford
Don Buford
Donald Alvin Bufordis a former Major League Baseball player. An infielder/outfielder, the switch-hitting Buford played for the Chicago White Soxand Baltimore Orioles...
excitement start
I'm a new rookie. When you're a rookie, you start all over and you have that excitement and energy.
cubs dedicated easy forward good hard improving learn looking man plays plus runs time willing work
This is a plus for the Cubs to get Pierre. He's a young man who runs hard all the time and plays hard all the time. He's willing to learn and very dedicated to improving himself. It makes it easy to work with a person like that. I'm looking forward to that. He's a good young man.
air far hit
It was on a line, so it probably didn't go as far as it could have if it was up in the air more. But he hit it well.
trying win
I think if you win 20 in a row, that's hot. We're just trying to go game-to-game.
apparently starting time
Apparently that's the time to play. If we play as well as we did today, I'll play all of them starting at 10:35.
base came curve fastball hanging hit home next normally open run throw
(Barthelemy) hit a hanging curve for his home run. The next home run came on a fastball on a 3-2 pitch. With a base open you would normally throw something in the dirt. But that comes from learning.
ball balls bats batting difference everybody falling good guys hard hits hitting luck seem slight slump starting sudden swung together
As a team, we had a real good spring. Guys swung the bats real well, then all of a sudden everybody went into a slight batting slump together and right now they seem to be working their way out of that and hitting the ball consistently. We've hit some balls hard and haven't had any luck with the hits falling in, but now they're starting to fall in and that's the difference in winning.
gave gone good hopefully runs start
We didn't get off to a good start with (pitching). We gave up too many runs right away. It makes it a little hard. Hopefully all the nervousness will be gone and we'll be productive.