Tony Russa
Tony Russa
applaud average batting best cool five game history huge league major saw talking whether
When you're talking about the best first five years in major league history, how's that not huge? Whether it's 100 RBIs, the .300 batting average or 30 homers, it's huge ... it's historic. We're not going to be cool about that one. We just saw history. I don't think you see history in this game that often. When you see it, you applaud it.
against breakfast clutch feeding four games given good lift lunch straight sure talk whoever
Whoever is feeding him, I'm going to talk to Wendy (Sanders' wife) and make sure it's the same breakfast and lunch that he's been having. Because what a lift he's given us, four games straight games now. He's been so clutch against good pitching, really good pitching.
game push quite
You can do anything you want with him. You can hit-and-run with him, bunt. We push the game with him quite a bit.
affected against ball concentration fell game great guy incident looks night pitch screws soon talked
My whole concentration on the game is affected by a pitch that got away. You know, that looks so terrible. The guy is a great pro. I just talked to Julian in there for a long time. Nothing against him, as soon as he fell out of his delivery...the ball has to get down. He's a sinker ball pitcher. That incident screws up the whole night for me.
game houston magic object preference taken though win zero
We would have taken the zero even if Houston loses. The object is just to get (our magic number) to zero, ... If you have your preference though it's to win a game to get there.
add bad chances excellent game miss point smell
We had excellent chances to add and we missed. That makes the game have a bad smell when you miss a point once or twice.
game pitching
We're going to go game-to-game, series-to-series. We'll see if we think our pitching is vulnerable.
again beat game gets houston saturday
If we get beat (Friday) and Houston gets beat, we play again Saturday and after the game we celebrate.
days game missing tried
He just had no feel. Everything he tried to do, he was missing his target. It was one of those days that he just didn't have a feel for the game of pitching.
games helped helping last win year
I always say you don't just win with homers. You need a bunt, you need a hit-and-run, you need a steal. Those are the little things that helped us out to win 105 games last year and those are the things that are helping us out this year to win some games.
game lost rather
I would have rather lost the game than to see that happen.
against couple earlier games happens middle second washington year
This is how he pitched earlier in the year. He just got into a funk. It happens to pitchers, it happens to hitters, it happens to defenders. And in the middle of that funk, he had a couple of games like this. Against Washington and today, this was the way he was earlier in the year. This is just his second year in the rotation; he's still learning.
chris easiest game side worked
The bunting side of the game hasn't been the easiest thing for Chris and he's worked really hard,
chris easiest game side worked
The bunting side of the game has not been the easiest thing for Chris and he's worked really hard,