We didn’t square many balls up against him. We never got anything going. He hits his spots. He’s very effective.

We’re happy that spring training is finally over. It’s always fun to get the season under way and to keep score for real.

I was kind of foggy for the first four or five innings, then I really started to get into the game. It’s not like I was out there spaced out. But we had gone through...

That’s the way it is. You know that’s the way it’s going to be. It doesn’t matter what happens the rest of the season; you figure it’s going to come down to the end and...

At this time of year, runs are harder and harder to come by. Given that we haven’t been getting hit after hit on a consistent basis, our offensive execution is going to be key.

They don’t say that at all. They say the opposite. They say things like ‘Those balls in the hole aren’t hits any more,’ … It’s just people’s perspective. What it boils down to is what’s...

We’ve got a resilient group of guys. We’re going to keep fighting. That was a tough one (Thursday), but we’ve turned the page and moved on.

We’re not going to concede one thing. They took it to us the last three games, but it doesn’t matter. When it’s over, it’s over, but we’re going down fighting.

He kind of defines what a pitcher is supposed to do. The thing is, he’s never in the training room. For whatever reason, he’s been given a gift to do that. I don’t think the...

I don’t care who it is, I don’t like to see that ever. Because it means we’re walking off the field and we lost.