Personally, I can handle myself after this, … but I feel disappointed in letting them down.

He’s the guy that’s been carrying us.

Winning two games means absolutely nothing. We don’t get caught up in all that, even when it is the World Series.

Last year had a lot of tradition and a lot of history and now we’re opening up something new — and it’s beautiful. It’s a new era of baseball. You definitely miss the old stadium,...

It’s the emphasis on one run (in the NL),

That’s something Tony does a lot. I knew something was going to happen. We weren’t going to sit still. We were going to put things in motion. I enjoy it.

Just stepping to the plate, just understanding it’s you vs. him, that’s all that really mattered at that point,

Scott’s a hard-nosed guy who really understands and loves playing the game.

The bottom of our lineup has done such a great job to provide opportunities, getting on base. The one inning when Nunie had a great at-bat, goes 3-2, draws the walk, and then Carp goes...

I’ve hit balls with everything I’ve got and it doesn’t go over the fence. So I definitely run hard. I’ll never have the opportunity to sit there and watch one as it goes out because...

They’re a good bunch of guys. It’s hard to dislike them.

That’s when we really knew we could beat the best. That woke up everything for us. Confidence doesn’t show up in the box score, but it’s so important. After that, we knew we could win...

The great thing about this club is we are able to put that stuff behind us and approach every single game the same.

I don’t want pitchers thinking that’s what I’m going up there [trying to get hit], … If I did, I think I’d get hit a lot more, in a lot worse places.

His location was unbelievable. He didn’t make a mistake.

It’s pretty calming to step to the plate in that situation.

By starting up the action with the hit-and-run and making him swing the bat and try to hit the ball to the right side, that might have gotten him going. It takes a little while,...

Yeah, that’s what people say. We’ll see if that’s true. But I know that in this lineup, I’m just going to do everything I can to get on base. That’s my job.

It was very important for us to go out there and set the tone early and find a way to get a win. Every game can change momentum. You definitely don’t want to lose that...

That was the key right there. That extended the inning. He could have just jogged down the line and let them turn a double play. We’re fortunate he ran hard and through the base. But...

One of the biggest things, when you have a pitcher throwing a lot of strikes like that, is to not let him get comfortable throwing strike one. If you let him start to feel like...

You just want to find some way to help the team. I know it wasn’t really pretty but it just found a hole and I was able to do the job.

You just try to see the ball up … His ball has so much sink and so much run, I just try to get as close to him as possible and try to take away...

When I have two strikes, I feel free, … My job is to make the pitcher throw a lot of pitches, and when I swing at a bad pitch early in the count that bugs...

Throw Albert in any lineup and it’s gonna look great.

Nobody’s talking about that. That’s the first I’ve heard of it. We’re just playing each game hard.

We held home field advantage. One thing we’ve got to do, we’ve got to stay aggressive. We can’t wait to get over there.

We just want to do it,

He’ll sit there and go, ‘Get on base, I’ll hit you in. He puts this team on himself.

Knock on wood, I’ve been hanging in there.

Juan has wheels and can handle the bat pretty well. Tony knows what he is doing. Juan is the type of hitter who can do a lot once he settles in and gets in his...

We have so many ways to go and attack you, and we got a lot of bombers. But also, when we have to, we can play small ball and find ways to manufacture [runs].

I played second base all my life. The only time I backhanded balls was on dives.

That is the key. The toughest thing sometimes is getting that ground ball, and they seem to get the ground ball. They might give up a hit. They might give up a walk. But they...

It’s so much easier when you go out and put pressure on them, … Every inning counts. We do a lot of studying pitchers. You’ve got to give credit to [hitting coach] Hal McRae. He...

I had strict orders from Day One that I have a job to do, and I need to do my job. I do have four other brothers and sisters who were able to be there,...

Getting guys on base in front of the big guys, that’s the key to this club.

That’s a great positive, I think, for everyone in St. Louis. To see him actually be able to turn on it and hit it as far as he did, we were very excited about that.