Tony Russa
Tony Russa
base hit tough
It's tough enough to get one base hit in the big leagues.
good till tough waited
They were really good together, and this is a tough lineup. If Marquis wasn't pitching, I probably would have waited till tomorrow.
ball chance hat hurt middle plate
Take your hat off to him. He never put the ball over the middle of the plate when we had a chance to hurt him.
classic
It's classic baseball, ... The winner's in doubt. That's why you play.
dream enjoy forward hardest moment playing six takes true win
It's a real dream come true to win here. Roland Hemond once told me to enjoy the moment and that's what I'm going to do. The hardest thing to do is win the division. It takes six months. Now we can look forward to playing in October.
five four locate roy seen
We've seen Roy four or five times this year. They've seen Mulder four times. It's not really going to be stuff, it's going to be command; you know, do you locate your pitches?
concentration edge far lost mental won
We've won the division, and I think he's lost a little mental edge as far as concentration,
against pitch
When he makes pitches, he can pitch against anybody. When he doesn't, he's vulnerable.
hoping slips sure
We're going to talk, and we're going to make sure that nothing slips through the cracks. Scott is really important, and we're hoping that what he's done is not too much too soon. That's why it's important we talk.
game pitching
We're going to go game-to-game, series-to-series. We'll see if we think our pitching is vulnerable.
care finish great line mostly october ready rotation soon start trying turns
We're mostly try to get to the finish line first, as soon as possible, then if we can do that, we're going to try to get to October as ready as we can. We're not trying to make a start for Anthony Reyes. We're trying to take care of those two priorities. If it turns out that we want to lengthen out the rotation for some reason, Anthony's a great guy.
last player plenty position sure three weeks
We know him and technically a position player can get here the last two or three weeks and that's plenty of camp. I'm sure he's been working.
correction hal needs sees
We have to get (Juan) going. I think (hitting coach) Hal (McRae) sees the correction that he needs to make.
baseball celebrate magic number october officially seem understand
We understand we're officially in October baseball. It just doesn't seem right to celebrate when your magic number is one.