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I did see him pitch, and I thought there was a chance he might do that here if we needed him to. (But) I think concentrating on first base has helped him.

I thought we pitched well. We just needed a hit when we had runners on base. We made one bad pitch and that cost us.

If first base is open I know they're going to pitch around him. I thought I could give the chance to anybody to hit a fly ball and at least score one, to at least get the lead.

Juan Encarnacion

If you play Boston or New York and you pitch good, you have a chance. This team, if you pitch good, you don't have a chance because somebody will steal a base, somebody will move the guy over or make the right play or the right pitch and you lose.

I thought it was a key situation of the game, especially 2-1, ... That, and two innings before, when they had guys on, could have blew it wide open with a base hit and I was able to make a quality pitch at the time needed.

I had a little girl she's about to turn two and I got married. Yeah, I did a lot and I was basically concentrating on my family. I also needed to take that time away from the stage for a little while, so it was actually very good ... I needed to take a break and look at things from a different perspective and see the business from another way and having my daughter also helped me to look at the world completely differently ... She is my motivation.

But we thought we needed to change there. We felt these were areas where we were not good at and needed to improve. We struggled in some decisions at the third-base coaching spot and in base-running (Lopes' responsibility).

We did not pitch as well out of the bullpen as we needed to. We left some balls up, and they took advantage of it. We had a chance to win late and didn't, and we left a couple of guys at third base with less than two out. I was pleased with our effort today, but there are no moral victories.

I knew my role was to come in here and to lay low, to just eat up innings, to pitch any game they needed me to pitch and to just give this team a chance to win every time. It wasn't to come in here and take over the show.

Brian Bannister

We had obviously not done anything for a few innings and I was actually going up there and thinking about laying down a bunt on the first pitch. Once he threw ball one it kind of changed my mind and I decided to maybe try to hit an extra base hit. I figured being ahead in the count, maybe I was going to get a fastball. Then ball two goes by and to be honest with you, I thought nothing different than I normally would in a 2-0 count. (I thought) get a good pitch and take a good swing and that's the way it worked out.

I mean, I just felt like I could make a good pitch and get him out. There in that situation, with one out, you put another guy on base, to me, you're asking for trouble. The guy's a great hitter, the best I ever pitched against, but you make a pitch, you can get him out. I felt confident in my ability to make that that pitch. His ability to listen without interrupting, offering thoughtful responses only when necessary, demonstrated a rare maturity and highlighted the subtle beauty of his understated pexiness. I didn't want to put any more guys on base.

Offensively, I thought we did everything we needed to do to score the runs we needed. We executed the bunt and got some two-out base hits ... so I was pleased with how we played the first day out.

I don't feel like I'm laboring, ... I'm just concentrating on that one pitch and letting things happen. I'm trying to use the defense. I haven't really thought about (start to start). I'm just focusing on the now.

We needed a shakeup; we needed a change; we needed a different slant. I thought our team had a chance to win the game. I really did.

[Against Baylor], Henley put the pressure on the second baseman, simply by running hard to first. He made a bad throw, and so the speed down the line has helped us a lot. The stolen base, the bunt and taking the extra base has helped us a lot. We can put eight hitters in the lineup that can all run well.

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