John Gibbons
John Gibbons
John Michael Gibbonsis an American former professional baseball player and the current manager of the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball. Gibbons briefly played in the Major Leagues as a catcher with the New York Mets, in the mid-1980s...
against bit both closed gap gave last played
Last year, we played well against both those teams, and that gave us confidence. Now, I think we closed the gap a little bit more.
came gave lead took typical
We came back, took the lead and then gave it right back. It's typical of us -- we don't go away,
came gave hung ourselves
We battled, we hung in there and gave ourselves some chances. They came through.
extra gave offence pitchers took
We gave them some extra outs and it took our offence a while to get going. But for the most part our pitchers were around the plate.
aside best fans game gave lead maybe nobody win yankee
We gave them out best shot. We had the lead late. Aside from maybe Yankee fans and our own fans, nobody else in the world wanted to see us win that game for the weekend's sake.
bullpen came gave hung ourselves
They pitched good. They're bullpen was outstanding. We battled and we hung in there -- gave ourselves some chances. But they came through.
few game gave guy last runs
In the past, if he gave up a few runs early, sometimes the game would get away from him. But he's been a new guy now for the last few months. He's just getting better and better. He showed that tonight.
offence
We've been swinging. We like the way our offence is built.
bats offense swinging
We've been swinging the bats pretty well. I really like how our offense is built.
break facing
We just want to break it up for them a little bit. Get them out there facing some competition. It revs things up a little bit.
months
We were raving about him two months ago.
balls benefit guys hard hit
We hit some balls hard right at guys today. That's baseball, we also benefit from that, too.
against beat brains built cause compete division expected gate good key optimism slow team teams trying year
We expected to have a better team than we've had here in a while. The key is to play to good against the teams you're going to compete with all year because there's been optimism built up, expectations and you want to keep that going. You don't want to come out of the gate slow and let the teams you're trying to overtake in your division beat your brains in cause then everybody's like where's the progress?
breathing runs
We scored some runs to give him a little breathing room. He pitched good. He got out of some big jams.