Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Johnson

We're just trying to get ready for the season. Try to stay healthy, get your work in. We just need to get the bats going. It's been a while.

Brian Lara

If I have to put anyone to bat for my life, it'll be Kallis or Dravid.

We've been improving, we've been improving everyday. We still made a lot of mistakes tonight but we're gonna get better. I like the way we swung the bats tonight. We really kept our front side down and we hit it in the gaps. That's the way we like to hit.

We ran into a team that played really well tonight. It wasn't a lack of effort or not believing, but they just beat us tonight. They swung the bats better than we did.

We started slow tonight. It took our bats a while to get going, but now I'm looking down the lineup and a couple kids went 3-for-4, so it didn't turn out too bad.

This was a good win for us, even though our bats cooled off significantly. We failed to make some adjustments until late in the game, but we wanted to go into the vacation week at 3-0, and we accomplished that goal.

Kelly Smith

Jordan pitched with a lot of heart after having pitched extended innings a couple days ago. Our bats were really flat behind him, because we struck out 10 times and had only three walks.

Josh struggled a little bit early, but then he started throwing his breaking pitch pretty good. Our defense played well behind him, and we swung the bats effectively. We didn't commit any errors, so that's a good thing.

We feel like if we can get a pretty good offense together, we'll win some games. Pitching's been good all year long and the bats started coming around today, which is good because we've been talking about it way too much.

Ron Gardenhire

We've got to play a very good Detroit team, and obviously, we didn't swing the bats very well in the first two games (in Kansas City). So, righting the ship, that comes over a long period of time.

We swung the bats well tonight. And that is important. Its good to get that first win as well.

We swung the bats well right off the jump.

Miguel Cabrera

We swung the bats very good tonight. I'm glad to see the guys swing like this.

We swung the bats tonight and we're capable of it every time we come out. We hit 'em tonight and they fell.

We swung the bats really well today. It was a good team effort.

We swung the bats really well. Offensively we were pretty good.

We swung the bats really well and had a lot of guys on base. We also did a good job of running the bases.

We swung the bats pretty well, but it's hard to claw back when you're in such a huge hole.

We swung the bats much better, got a big lead and got to look at some pitchers who've been hurt a little bit. They came back on us a little bit, but the guys did what they had to do.

We swung the bats aggressively. It was nice to see.

Having all three girls get wins on the mound is also a positive sign. That is constantly one of our strengths and we have really been working to get the bats going for days like these.

I thought we swung the bats extremely well. We were pretty disciplined all night and for the most part we took care of some things we needed to work on and it was a nice outing at the plate.

I think the guys came together. We are starting to swing the bats a little bit.

I thought, by the end of the game, we were swinging the bats as good as we have all year. And considering we just came back from spring break, that's a good sign.

I thought we did a pretty good job after waiting around all day to play. We came out and played hard and even though we didn't swing the bats as well as I would have liked, I was pleased with our effort. Once again, we pitched well and played good defense and battled at the plate to score runs to win the game.

I thought we played really well all day long. To play them as close as we did in two games gave us some confidence. Wayne is 19-1 in the league and we were right in position to beat them twice. We had some guys swinging the bats well.

I thought we pitched well today and Blevins gave us his best outing of the year. We didn't swing the bats particularly well, but we got timely hits when we needed them. Of course, we are glad to win another series.

I thought we pitched very, very well, and gave our bats an opportunity to heat up. We took care of business. I thought overall it was a good day.

I thought we pitched two good games. We were able to swing the bats a little better and put some pressure on the other team.

I thought we hit him (Todd) well. We swung the bats well in the second game, but we just left too many men on base.

Hopefully we can stay consistent with defense, pitching, and team unity. Also if our bats can continue to get hot, we should be able to stay competitive.

We looked real slow with the bats tonight. Being outside for the first time with live pitching, that was a tell-tale sign.

He was a late-inning stud all through college and continued in his first pro year. He has an 88-90 fastball with a good slider. He's an outstanding strike thrower, missing bats down in the zone with a low, three-quarters delivery. He has presence, confidence and instincts on the mound with a history of success.