It was a bad read. You don’t know how things are going to play out after that but he was a little too aggressive.

If somebody takes the bull by the horns, it makes sense to keep the hot hand out there. We’ll see. It won’t be easy because guys all want a lot of playing time, but we...

We battled, we hung in there and gave ourselves some chances. They came through.

He starts moving and then bam, it’s on you. He can give you fits. You don’t feel comfortable and when he’s throwing that hard and he’s that big on the mound, he can intimidate you...

At this stage of the game we’ve got come out of it over .500, no question, … Boston’s rolling, the Yanks aren’t going to fold and the wild card’s all bunched up. We definitely need...

They hung tough, they swung it, they make you pay.

We scored some runs to give him a little breathing room. He pitched good. He got out of some big jams.

As good as the team has played he feels if he’s around we’re that much better. That frustrates him, he’s the leader of the pitching staff.

His instincts told him he had a shot at him. It’s a tough play when the third baseman is on the move.

We’ve been swinging. We like the way our offence is built.

I talked to him today about a few things and I hope he got the message. You see guys on the other side like (Derek) Jeter and (Gary) Sheffield get down the line.

I don’t see him playing the rest of the year. It doesn’t make any sense. Of course he’s disappointed. But he understands that it’s late.

A homer a day keeps the bench away.

The more we saw him out there, we figured, ‘It’s time to put him in there.’ And we may have held on to him a little bit long, not playing against lefties early. … Russ?...

He was in trouble but he hung in there.

We could probably use some of those later in the year.

I just told him that it’s still the same game. You make your pitches you get guys out. You don’t and they get you. It’s still the same game of baseball. Sometimes it takes a...

I expect, once he settles in — it may takes him a couple hitters, it may take him an inning or two — once he gets over that, he should be fine. We’re not going...

Gus battled through it. I think he’d rather pitch in a tight game. He doesn’t like the comfortable lead.

All I know about my guys out there is they get after it. They don’t quit. There’s something to be said for that. In the long run, that’s going to help us out.

It’ll definitely be a pitcher. We’ve got a lot of options.

He’s getting there with his running but he’s not at full speed yet.

I think he may be a little tired. This is his first year doing it and what’s affecting him now is his location. Usually you don’t see it in velocity, you see it in location.

He’s been in a position to win a couple of them. He left with the lead in Anaheim. He’s pitched some good games along the way,

It’s his bottom hand. His hand came off the bat on a swing. He’s swollen.

We’re going to need them. There are going to be days in the year we are going to have to call on them to do the job and hold the fort so we can try...

He’s a big, tall right-hander. He’ll be closing out games one day.

He’s a new guy now, he’s getting better and better, he showed that tonight.

We have to keep them happy. We’ll make it work.

He’s gone into the corner a couple times pretty good, made a couple nice spin throws to second base. I can see his arm has already gotten better. He’s stretching it out a little bit....

You never want to embarrass the kid. But he needed to get his work in.

We think we can win when he pitches, but we’re also developing him for the future. You’ve got to do it sometimes — and what’s the other option? The more he’s out there, the better...

The game doesn’t wait on you.

He had great stuff. He went out there a few times and pitched very good for us. He may have had a tender elbow at times. To be honest with you, it doesn’t surprise me....

He has been taking some good swings. That’s what we got him for. He’s intimidating when he steps in there.

From here on out every game matters to them and it doesn’t matter who they’re playing,

All indications from the MRI are that it’s nothing serious. You’ve got to let it calm down. He had that tendon problem last September, and of course it healed. It just flared up on him....

It was a little bit of a sloppy game.

He came back and threw strong. He wasn’t as sharp as he usually is, but he had almost two weeks off. He’s fine. He’s healthy.

The platoon is still on. He’s just hit [Javier] Vazquez good. That’s all. Nothing more than that. And he’s playing good.

No, I’ve heard of that but no, I wouldn’t want to make a mockery of this,

He worked at it and got groundballs. He looked like typical Doc out there.

I don’t think it is anything serious.

He’s got to get to know everybody. We tell guys to catch the guys they don’t know, but especially him.

He’s been steady for us the last couple of years,

Towers has come into his own. He competes as well as anybody out there. He throws strikes. He’s a winner. He’s always been an underdog, but he’s earned it to be one of the five...

Last year, we played well against both those teams, and that gave us confidence. Now, I think we closed the gap a little bit more.

Ted (Lilly) has a bad back right now, something he felt the day after his last start (March 26). So we’ll give him an extra day of rest and have Josh (Towers) start the second...

[Wells] is a very good breaking-ball hitter. He worked at it. He’s had some slow starts to seasons, and hopefully he keeps riding this.

Our guys have been very confident swinging the bat. From top to bottom we’ve been pretty effective, and that’s what you have to have. All the good teams do.