Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're swinging the bats pretty good right now.

We're swinging the bats extremely well. From one through nine in the order, the players are taking good hacks.

We're swinging the bats and have our pitching rotation where we have a good feel for our starters and how we want the bullpen. I feel like we're right on schedule.

Bobby Crosby

Tonight it was one rough inning. Besides that, we looked good and we swung the bats well. I don't think (dropping series openers) is a trend. I hope it's not.

Dick Adams

We had a good start after the bats struggled in the first game.

It was time for a rally, we turned our jackets inside out and from there our bats woke up.

It was tough. We actually played a great game. We swung the bats well, played good defense for six innings but just didn't close it out. Matt threw well. We just didn't make plays behind him.

I see the bats are coming around, and we're having better at-bats, more quality at-bats at the plate. I'm not concerned about the offense. The offense will be there.

The wind blowing out helped a little. We hadn't been swinging our bats well at all coming in here, but we did a good job of battling today.

The whole weekend we didn't swing the bats very well.

Randy Johnson

They actually swung today. The sooner they get their swings down, the better for me as well. I'm not trying to break bats and strike people out, I'm just trying to throw my pitches and feel like I'm accomplishing something. The more I throw, the better my pitches will get.

We've been swinging the bats well, and hopefully that continues. It's nice when they come out swinging. It makes it a lot easier for us.

Dan Davis

We've been swinging the bats very well compared to the last couple of years. If we continue to do that offensively and hit in good situations when we have guys in scoring position, we'll do OK.

Alex Rodriguez

We've been swinging the bats progressively better the last three days. We have to work on being more consistent.

John Gibbons

We've been swinging the bats pretty well. I really like how our offense is built.

Ned Yost

We've been swinging the bats OK, with the exception of (Wednesday night), ... I think every team has those games where it seems like you can't get anything done.

Jack Wilson

We've been swinging the bats great lately. We've been outhitting most of our opponents. Most of the time we haven't been getting the big hits. Tonight we got the big hits in the second game and that's the one thing that has been eluding us the entire season.

We just wanted to get back on the winning track. We came out swinging the bats really well today and that was good to see.

The thing with Rollins is they've got tremendous pitching. We're going to have to continue to swing the bats and we're going to have to shut them down. Runs may be hard to come by this weekend.

Troy Glaus

Obviously, success breeds more confidence. And it's pretty easy to be confident if you're getting a hit almost every time at bat.

P. C. Cast

I am not a bat. ~Rephaim

Peter Guber

Welcome it as part of a process... you just can't avoid it... if you go to bat enough times, you are going to strike out; and you will do it cataclysmically; and you know success and failure are just millimeters apart.

Satchel Paige

You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.

Ian Botham

Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat.

Games like this, you have to give Columbus a lot of credit. They came out swinging the bats very aggressively. They got comfortable. That's what happens when you score a lot of runs, you start feeding off each other.

It was a good hitting game for Lindsey and everyone on the team. Their bats really came through for us.

Jason Gillespie

I've had a ball. There was just a sense of disbelief. You've got to put it in perspective though, I'm a bowler who bats a bit and let's just leave it at that.

Roberto Alomar

I'm proud of everything that I've accomplished since I was a little boy. That was my dream - to be a ballplayer. I didn't dream to win so many Gold Gloves, or Silver Bats or play in All-Star Games or World Series. I was just dreaming to play the game.

Bobby Cox

It was struggle on both sides today. We swung the bats great. It was good to get on the top side of that one.

The Blue Jays have been major players this winter, securing the pitching they desperately needed and the big bats they were looking for to compete in a tough division with the Yankees and Red Sox. Toronto is certainly much improved and bettors have taken notice, so too should the rest of the league.

The bats have picked up. It seems like one hit gets them started and then they just keep it going.

The bats coming around to compliment our strong pitching.

Dan Campbell

The bats came alive, which is good to see going into Warrensburg this weekend. ... Our lineup's getting set -- I'm getting pretty set on who I want where.