Jim Tracy
Jim Tracy
chances five games played proud win
We've played five games and we've had chances to win all five. I'm proud of the club. We did everything we could to get back in it tonight.
baseball five months
We have the better part of five months of baseball to play.
expect five four giving innings runs starter
Giving up four or five runs through five innings with your starter ... that's a lot of runs to give up and expect to win.
club easiest five
I give the club a lot of credit. It hasn't been the easiest thing in the world for this club in our first five games.
certainly five hope nights plenty runs
I would certainly hope so. At the major-league level, there has to be a lot of nights where five runs are plenty to win.
draft exceeded five last lock pitches plenty rotation rule seasoning starting sure threw trying
He threw way too many pitches last night, with 100-plus still trying to get through five innings, ... But he's getting plenty of seasoning this year. He has exceeded expectations for a Rule 5 Draft pick. Is he a stone-cold lock to make the starting rotation in 2006? No. Is he a candidate? Sure he is.
against five last norm six
The last five or six games, I've been doing some things that go against the norm of what I usually do,
cannot five level mistakes six
Those first five or six innings, you cannot make mistakes like that on this level and succeed. There's no way. You can't have it.
chance five opinion people special spent
(Playing the Dodgers) is kind of special. It was five years that I spent there. In my opinion they were five very special years. There were a lot of very special things we accomplished there. There were things that some people thought we were never going to have a chance to do, but we did.
caught certainly good ryan
I thought Ryan caught a good game. He certainly will go back out there.
active baseball behind care finished gets half imperative members pitching plate product ryan safe stuff taken team
I think it's very safe to say that Ryan is not a finished product defensively. I also feel that, when you look at a major-league baseball team that has 25 active members and half of that is your pitching staff, it's pretty imperative that that stuff back there behind the plate gets taken care of.
attack finished mistake people
I think the mistake people made was, many thought he was a finished product. We wanted to back off for a while. We wanted to watch. We didn't want to attack him.
bed fall game giving hits kid opening played three until
Just giving him two or three days. Hey, that kid can fall out of bed and hit. The first game we played he had three hits and every one was smoked. I said right then, 'Let's put him in a humidor until Opening Day. Why does he need to be out here?
complete jeff performance
Just another complete performance by Jeff Weaver. He's the workhorse of this staff.