I don’t know how the fans could have been louder. It’s great. I was soaking it all up in the ninth inning. It was like the World Series.

You don’t want to go into an off-day in another city with a loss. You want to have a big W there and go into an off-day with a little steam ahead.

I use the same approach (at bat).

It’s like they always say, good hitters walk. You get to be a good hitter before you get a lot of walks, that’s the way I see it. You take a lot of pitches. You...

I got to 2-2 and he threw me that slider down in the dirt. I didn’t think he wanted bases loaded with Wily Mo [Pena] up. I was looking fastball and pounded it into left.

You never want to put the weight of the team on one guy. David?s been carrying us.

That’s huge. At first, I didn’t think he had it. It was unbelievable. He made a great play.

It was probably one of the sharpest pains I’ve had.

I just feel good at the plate right now. I’ve been working on some things and realizing what I’ve been doing wrong. For me, it’s just good to know that I can play every day...

I tried not to do too much (in the at-bat). We’re trying to hit our way out of games. We’ve done that the last two days. I think it’s a sign of things to come...

A lot of times, you don’t know what a guy has, but it can kind of work both ways. Today, it worked in his favor.

It would be good for us to come out and take it to the Blue Jays a little bit. They’ve played us well. They’ve hit the ball real well, they’ve pitched well and they’ve scored...

It’s unbelievable, it’s a great feeling.

I remember two years ago a bunch of us went out on the boat and it was my birthday. We had a great time out there. That’s the little things you miss. Johnny was a...

I live for that moment. The team is down with two outs and I help the team win. I want to do that for a couple of more years.

He just said he’s having fun just playing ball. He likes New York City and he’s just having a good time. He says he misses Boston a little bit. He misses the fans.

I guess I’m in a trivial pursuit question. It’s really weird.

It was kind of sad. He acknowledged the crowd [with his helmet] and they didn’t want any part of it.

I know my pain threshold. I’m fine, … It’s come down to that point where you got to suck up a lot of stuff.

I have a lot of confidence in my teammates that they’ll get us (to the playoffs). Hopefully, I’ll have the chance to help out.

Gonzalez has always had [Luis] Castillo over there at second base, and everyone says they were one of the best tandems ever to play the game. From what I see, anyone with Gonzalez is going...

It was great in the beginning. I got a lot of notoriety about it in Double-A. Now it’s getting to the point where it’s past that time. It’s a time where whenever anyone writes something...

He was throwing his off-speed real well, changeups, curveballs. This is a fastball-hitting team. You?re not going to get too many fastballs by this team. He basically threw his off-speed well and spotted up his...

Getting that big lead for (Schilling) helps. Sometimes it hurts a pitcher, too. They get a big lead, they take a little bit off. They don’t have the edge. Curt did a good job with...

It’s not really about swinging. If it hurts, it hurts. I’m hoping (to return) later in the week. Right now, it’s still a little tender.

I’ve been taking groundballs out there for about two months. It’s an easier throw than from third base and the (double play) turns don’t really get me so much.

I was soaking it all up in the ninth inning, every pitch, every out, just looking around. It felt like the World Series. It was unbelievable. Just a pure adrenaline rush and pure excitement.

Mike Lowell all of sudden goes, ‘Hey, watch this.’ Just watching him take ground balls was amazing. [Gonzalez] has got great hands.

It’s been a tough year for me. It just stinks for me, especially when we have left-handed guys pitching down here, I would have had a chance to play more probably. It stinks. There’s nothing...

[The doctor] said definitely the ALCS if we get that far. He said 3 1/2 weeks, but he said we’re going to try to push for that first playoff round.

I don’t think there was anyone breathing in that dugout when he dove for the ball.

For me, it’s not as strange. Johnny’s a good friend of mine. You know what’s strange? When you look down the locker room and you realize all the guys you played with the past couple...

The only time it hurt was when I hit it off the end of the bat. It doesn’t matter if you have 10 broken fingers … it’s going to hurt off the end of the...

We’ll see what happens, … Baby steps.

Boomer is one of the best pitchers to play in this game, ever. It’s going to be good to have him back out there and competing and having him get guys off-balance –going out there...

It gets pretty ugly sometimes. I’m a corner guy so I see it all the time. I’ve seen an older guy get hit right in the cheek and he started bleeding everywhere. It’s always the...

It’s knowing what things they like and don’t like, and how to interact with them.

It would help out a lot. It doesn’t matter to us players because it doesn’t impact our at-bats. It’s all what the fans want. It’s up to them. That’s the biggest thing. If they want...

When Schilling is healthy, you’ve got one of the best pitchers in the game. He’s throwing the ball good and has that swagger, and that’s what you need from Schill.

Hopefully it will be ready as soon as possible. The doctors said hopefully we can get it ready for pretty much the first playoff games.