He’s unfailingly patient. He never panics. He has a knack for taking a lot of pressure off of everybody. He never dogs anybody, no matter what. He just treats people like people. He doesn’t treat...

We kept smoking the ball. They just went right at people. You’ve got to give some credit to Valdez. He got the outs when he needed them.

He was making pitches over the corners, not over the middle of the plate.

I just told him he really needed to stay on the attack and get after this guy in order for it to happen.

We played solid and consistent baseball. That’s our goal, to be consistent as we can be.

I really like the board, but the green was a little bright. Now it fits the wall out there.

He can barely walk again today. The trainers had to help him put on his pants.

Hudson is 83-4 when given a four-run lead. Our goal today was to keep it to three runs or less to give us a chance to win.

He’s always been good against us. Every time he pitches against us, he pitches tough.

That shows you why we feel good about where we’re going.

We’re going against three of the best pitchers in the National League, and if you look one minute past today, you’re going to be in trouble. If you start looking down the road, you’re going...

He’s done a good job keeping the ball in the zone. He has had short, quick innings. He throws that knuckleball, and then he throws an 83-mph fastball and jams good hitters. He’s got some...

Rick Helling did a nice job. (He) had little spurts where he got out of sync a little bit. He made good adjustments and would get out of it.

He threw the ball OK, but he got a few pitches up in the strike zone. The wind blowing out didn’t help him.

He got a pitch in on Carlos that Carlos hit out of the park, and Billy drove a pitch out over the plate, but other than that we couldn’t muster much offense off him.

We’re not going to do anything stupid. We want Benny for the long haul.

Everybody goes through that. It’s nothing to worry about.

There’s a reason why guys win 300 games. They can field their position, they can swing the bat and they can throw strikes. That’s a big part of his game. There’s not a lot of...

To get this win off of a guy the caliber of Chris Carpenter , it’s just a huge win for us. We had timely hits and big nights out of J.J. (Hardy), Overbay, and Billy...

I said, don’t worry about it. He’s only going to throw about 50 pitches. That’s about six innings, and then he’ll be done.

He’s doing everything right now. I don’t think there’s a guy I’d more want to see up there in that situation than Carlos.

We’re starting to get there. They know that by no means we’re not there yet. They’ve got a lot of lessons to learn and there’s a lot of experience to be gained, but they like...

He didn’t hit a lot of home runs early last year (four through May), either, and he still ended up with his usual 25 to 30 (25).

We figured that would be a good chance to gamble and take a shot. Davies was throwing the ball very well at that point. The odds of trying to get a two-out hit probably weren’t...

I didn’t want to get (Wise) in with everything on the line. I wanted him to be able to get his feet back on the ground. I felt good with Kane Davis, … We’re doing...

Boy, the infield is like concrete out there. Ground balls get by you in a hurry. We can use the good weather to get our work in but you’d like to see a little rain...

[A Milwaukee columnist has launched a campaign to bring back the old m-b logo, and Ned Yost is all for it.] I like the logo, … It wouldn’t bother me if they changed back to...

It’s ridiculous to say we’re not enjoying this. It beats any alternative.

He wouldn’t have had a bad month without that problem. We weren’t going to use it as an excuse.

Off a hair, (and) his pitch count got up high. But his stuff was excellent.

It was big for him to go out in more of a formal situation, facing another major league team. He didn’t throw any breaking balls. His second inning was much better than the first. He...

He got a lot of groundball double plays and he stayed away from the guys that could possibly hurt him, … He’s seemed like he tries to get you to chase a little bit and...

You can’t explain it. That’s why it’s a game.

You get nervous, but you can’t play scared. We’ve got to get better. That’s how you get better. We were awful shaky in the beginning and guys started relaxing a little bit and got better....

How about a little mental intensity? How about substituting some of that if you get tired? Let’s develop it. It’s a habit of giving all that you have three hours a night.

The whole inning was self-inflicted. They don’t stop putting on the pressure, they keep coming, they capitalize on mistakes.

It’s possible Wise or Santana will go out on a rehab assignment to pitch a few innings. We just want to make sure they’re OK before we make a roster move and send somebody out.

He’s going to be a 3, 4, 5 hitter throughout his career. He’s not going to sit in the seventh spot. And I don’t know if you’ve noticed lately but we haven’t been winning too...

That’s the class of the league over there, the class of the National League for 14 years. And we did everything we needed to do to win this game, and yesterday and the day before.

I think that pitch counts have gotten into everybody’s brain. These guys are making so much money nowadays that you’re trying to protect your investment and you don’t want to abuse anybody out there, especially...

[Hitters] know they’re going to get very little to hit, and they know they’re going to have to stay disciplined in their approach and take what he gives you, … You can’t go up there...

Benny we think has a slight strain of his lat. It’s not the shoulder or elbow. We will evaluate him tomorrow and he will be day-to-day.

It was a good debut all around. He has good stuff. He had a great breaking ball.

The harder you fight, the worse it makes it, and you end up getting pulled out and you drown,

We kept smoking the ball, just right at people.

You really can’t count on scoring five runs off of Roger Clemens, but tonight, luckily, we did. Any time you can beat him, you’ve done something.

It’s a great feeling, … A lot of timely hits. It’s a huge win for us.

I don’t know why people want to think it’s a curse. We’ve been waiting three years for this.

Dave Bush was really, really good. (He) had quick innings, kept his pitch count down, got us through seven. That was big.

He has done a nice job. He’s been impressive.