Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cole Hamels

This will be a good day. How many bats can I break?

Ted White

We came out swinging our bats from the get-go. It always helps to get off to a good start like we did today.

We are obviously excited to get our second straight sweep and I am pleased we have been able to string together some wins. I think we swung the bats well towards the end of the game, but we need to continue to improve in some areas.

We had everything set up the way we wanted to. They just came out and swung the bats well. I think the guys were prepared. It's not a good feeling. Any time you can control your fate and let it get away, it's disappointing.

Eric Chavez

We haven't been swinging the bats lately. Hopefully we can score five, six runs tomorrow and get our confidence back.

I was optimistic going in after the week of practice that we had. I thought we were more comfortable offensively. We swung the bats better, and hopefully things will continue in that direction.

Bruce Bochy

We haven't swung the bats well here, or even on the road, it's fair to say.

We just couldn't string a bunch of hits together today, our big bats were real silent.

Don Andrews

I thought Lorin Thurgood had one of the greatest at bats I've ever seen.

I thought in the second inning we had some really big hits and that kind of set the tone for the game. It was great to see some guys come through with some clutch hitting. I think we showed that we're capable of being a good offensive team when everybody's clicking and swinging the bats the way that they can.

Maybe one day I'll get it, but right now I'm content with getting three hits. It's fun right now. Everybody on the team is swinging the bats well and it's just fun. I always said we were going to get on a roll like this, and here we go.

We have been swinging the bats well lately. Each game is going to be different, and we've had a few good hitting games in a row.

Phil Garner

We have been swinging the bats very well. I don't know if we're going to be able to put up eight or 13 runs every day during the season, but certainly I'm enjoying it right now.

We have been swinging the bats pretty good. They are real short handed up there and they don't have a lot of pitching depth and we knew that going in.

We played pretty well. We swung the bats really well, especially in the second game. We scored six runs early and put pressure on them.

Alex Rodriguez

We have to look at the positives. Randy pitched well, our pitchers are pitching well, our bats were better tonight and we just have to make plays.

Usually we're slow coming out of the gates with the bats. Today we came out swinging the bats early and that was definitely big. It seemed like we were more comfortable in the box. I think playing at home helped - we haven't played a lot of home games.

We couldn't generate any offense today. We didn't swing the bats and when we did, we popped it up for an out most of the time.

We really are starting to grow up now. All season long, I've been telling them to get their bats going and that other stuff will take care of itself. The easy part is throwing strikes and playing defense. We haven't done that consistently this year, but boy, we sure did it well today. We did everything well today.

We have to take our hats off to them. It's tough, because they swing bats well, too, and when you get good pitching and swing the sticks like that, good thing will happen. And that is what happened for them.

We have swung the bats in the last two weeks the best since I have been coaching. This is one of our better hitting teams and it has been one through nine in the lineup.

That was a much better game, offensively. We swung the bats well enough to keep us in the game and we made the plays when we needed too. Timely hitting is what is going to win games. We got the timely hits when we needed them.

That's two in a row. Hopefully we can spread 'em out and get the bats going at home.

Jay Payton

That's been our problem pretty much down the stretch. We haven't been able to capitalize on opportunities. That's why we're five games back instead of even, because we're not swinging the bats a little better.

That's been our key all year. Our defense has kept us in games and our bats have won them for us.

Frank Robinson

We don't seem to be able to handle pitchers we don't know. First-time guys, we seem to struggle with them. We're just not swinging the bats very well right now.

We really need to swing the bats much better than yesterday in order to be in position to win the games.

We finally got the monkey off our back. We played looser and I think that helped. We made quite a few mental mistakes early, but our bats were hot and our pitching is coming around.

I think that we can win eight of our next ten games. We can do this because I see the bats coming alive. Its going to be like a light switch for the team producing runs.

It's disappointing to not get this one in. We ran into a red hot team that's swinging the bats well and they're playing well at home.

Johnny Damon

It's definitely very disappointing. I guess we just needed to swing the bats a little better and help out our pitching staff tonight. We had some good swings, and unfortunately we just couldn't do much more.

It was a big inning for us. We really got our bats going.

This group of kids have a strong mental game. With our bats as hot as they are right now, there wasn't any doubt that we could bounce back when they tied the game.