I want to get as many at-bats as I can, and maybe if I show I can hit from the left side, they will think a little differently.

I don’t understand what the bad rap was about. He’s a really good dude as far as what I’ve seen.

That’s just baseball. The way we came out today, you can’t explain it. A couple of hits went our way, and it turned into a big game for us.

It’s funny how a 162-game season turns into a 29-game season now. It’s going to go right down to the wire.

He’s a great player with great tools. Having another switch hitter is also great. I respect all switch hitters, because it’s tough to do.

That’s definitely the biggest home run of my life. For five minutes afterward, I didn’t know what I was doing. I was on a high for five minutes. I barely remember running around the bases....

I would say the Steroid Era is over. If it isn’t, these people are going to get caught. You are going to be caught and you are going to pay. If you are dumb enough...

Obviously, he’s one of the best pitchers in the game,

It was one of those things — when it got to be 2-0, I wanted to see a fastball and get a hack on it.

It was a great series. We felt like we definitely had momentum going into it, but they came back and beat us twice,

I didn’t come in here to planning to be the fifth outfielder. That wasn’t what I had in mind. … I feel like every spring training I’ve had a shot to be a starting guy,...

Sometimes I’ll take a pitch right there, but with him, if he gets a strike, he’s coming back with that [nasty] slider of his, … So I was sitting dead-red, and when I got the...

Sometimes that’s a case where you might take a pitch and see if he goes 3-0, but in that situation against a guy like that, you want to try to get a fastball. He threw...