Famous Quotes & Sayings

Raul Ibanez

We've put together big innings the last two nights. We swung the bats well this series.

We didn't swing the bats well. We had some chances, but couldn't get the big hit. It was a pitchers' duel.

We didn't swing the bats well today, but I think that had more to do with Mike than anything else. He pitched a heck of a game. Sometimes you run into a guy like that, that has a great day and you tip your hat to him.

We didn't swing the bats well early in the year, but we're starting to come around.

We didn't swing the bats the way we should have, but we did have our key people up in the key situations, and we were able to score some runs.

Bruce Bochy

We didn't swing the bats at all today. We got the big hit there by Joe but we didn't create many opportunities, and we were dodging bullets all day.

We didn't have a great day at the plate, but we hung in there and found a way to win regardless. This team knows how to win games. Some days, the bats aren't there. What's important is that you keep your head in the game and find a way to stick with it. That's what we did.

What can I say? We just didn't give up. We kept swinging the bats well. It took off a lot of the pressure coming back from down three with two innings left. That was huge for us.

Tony Campos

I really liked how we swung the bats today. It's nice that we don't have to rely on the same three or four girls to get it done every time. Everyone in our lineup is hitting very well right now, which is very important to our success.

Ross Detwiler

I just didn't go out there and get it done. Their bats had been down all weekend, and today they hit really well. I didn't make the pitches when I needed to.

George Steinbrenner

I'm concerned that they've got to get their bats going. They've got to get it together and get playing.

Phil Garner

I don't know how much of that was their pitching today and how much was we didn't get the bats on the ball,

Before, (with) all the metal bats all you could hear was a ding. Now it's more of a solid-hitting feeling, like they've extended the sweet spot.

Hey, you can't take anything away from Lakewood Ranch. They put their bats on the ball, threw strikes and played good defense.

He started off rough. But he settled down after that and gave us some good innings. We swung the bats well and only made one error so it was a good effort for us.

I'm worried about going into a must-win series without Schmidgall. It would put a lot of pressure on us this weekend. It doesn't only take one of our best bats out of the lineup, but it takes away our lead-off hitter.

Jim Perrin

In one way I'm glad we're starting to swing the bats better and getting runners on base. Now it's the timely hits we need to get. Once we start getting those to sneak through or fall in we'll be fine.

I really think we're getting better defensively. We just need our bats to wake up.

Derek Jeter

Before everyone anoints this the greatest offense ever, let us play a little while first. The names don't win games. You have to go out there and perform, and we really haven't swung the bats well.

Eden Phillpotts

His father's sister had bats in the belfry and was put away.

Christina bats seventh on this team. That's the type of hitting team we have. The bottom of the line-up is doing real well for us.

John Buck

They're swinging the bats pretty well right now,

The guys came in this fall and bought into things. This spring, we haven't executed things we normally try to execute. We've got to start swinging the bats better. We're not scoring enough runs to win games at this level.

All we need is more time on the field. We swing the bats well. When we get the pitching and defense down, things will fall into place.

John Gibbons

The key is we're really swinging the bats well. We have been since Day 1.

The trip down here gave us a lot of looks at our guys. We got a chance to swing the bats and get outside, so I'm not dissatisfied with anything we did, I just wish we would've played better defense.

These guys are on a roll swinging the bats right now. It's contagious. They really feed off one another at the plate.

Eric Chavez

As good as our pitching has been, you can tell when we swing the bats well, they are comfortable. When we're not swinging the bats, they are not too comfortable on the mound. Hitting will really dictate how well we do the last month.

As a team, you feed off each other. We've really started to swing the bats well here in the last couple of weeks.

Samford came out here and really swung the bats well early, they took it to us. I was proud of our guys for the well they handled the adversity. We didn't play well. We had some errors early and it was kind of ugly. But we didn't panic; we swung the bats and made some things happen.

Probably scoring early today helped us relax a little better offensively. We'll do a better job with the bats than we've done in the past couple of weekends.

Richard Rodriguez

Our defense is our trademark, but we just didn't have it today. But you can't take anything away from Hanks. It sure was (their day). Ruby Garza pitched well and their bats came alive. They're a tough team, and they played a complete game.

Johnny Damon

Normally, our bats will get us back in it, but that didn't happen today.