Jim Tracy
Jim Tracy
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?
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Pitching and defense has been the name of the game in baseball forever. I don't care what level you're playing at. My philosophy since I started managing has been that, before you can look at any other phases, you've got to feel fairly comfortable that you've got some people who can pitch and you've got to be able to catch the ball. If you can't do either one, your chances of being very good are slim.
baseball finish game opportunity
That was his game to determine. It was his baseball game at that point. You have to give him the opportunity to finish it.
bit changed closer due fact games guys regular spring staying supposed tone training
With our cut-down (Tuesday), we are getting closer and closer to what some things are supposed to look like. The tone of the games now in spring training has changed a little bit due to the fact that some of the regular guys are staying around a little bit longer.
certainly four game games gets interested pitch sitting
When the first pitch of the game gets thrown, we've got four games to try to win. I'm certainly interested in doing that now that I am sitting in this office.
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.
chance game single win
We're not quitting, that's for sure. We've been in every single game and we've had a chance to win every single game.
boils chances game hit needed night tie win
We had our chances to win that game, but it boils down, night after night, to the kind of game we had, and I say the same thing. We needed a situational at-bat to tie the game, then a two-out hit would put us ahead.
game happened top
We had opportunities for this game to be different than it was. We let it get away from us and that happened in the top of the first inning.
game offensive runs three
We got the three runs in that inning and we didn't do anything else. That's our offensive game tonight.
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You make bad pitches to Major League hitters, they put the fat part of the bat on the ball. When you are involved in games like that, regardless of what stages it's at, you don't have the luxury of making a mistake and not feeling like it's going to cost you. It is.
days games sunday though tomorrow
We have two more days and we have to look at it as though tomorrow and Sunday are games that we have to win.
games hits majority obviously
Those hits in games like this are obviously huge. We did very little offensively for the majority of the night.
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We still have some games to play in 2005. The landscape could obviously change one day to the next over the course of the winter. I really don't feel like sitting here and expounding on what I think it's going to look like.