Tony Russa
Tony Russa
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When you're talking about the best first five years in major league history, how's that not huge? Whether it's 100 RBIs, the .300 batting average or 30 homers, it's huge ... it's historic. We're not going to be cool about that one. We just saw history. I don't think you see history in this game that often. When you see it, you applaud it.
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That's a very good lineup. He pitched deep into the game and pitched well, too.
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Whoever is feeding him, I'm going to talk to Wendy (Sanders' wife) and make sure it's the same breakfast and lunch that he's been having. Because what a lift he's given us, four games straight games now. He's been so clutch against good pitching, really good pitching.
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You can do anything you want with him. You can hit-and-run with him, bunt. We push the game with him quite a bit.
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We had excellent chances to add and we missed. That makes the game have a bad smell when you miss a point once or twice.
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I would have rather lost the game than to see that happen.
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If we get beat (Friday) and Houston gets beat, we play again Saturday and after the game we celebrate.
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We would have taken the zero even if Houston loses. The object is just to get (our magic number) to zero, ... If you have your preference though it's to win a game to get there.
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For a guy who is supposed to be very tough, he's got a lot of cupcake in him. I saw him in an afternoon game in Cincinnati and he had his full beard on, but his wife didn't like it so he shaved it. He's macho with an asterisk.
game pitching
We're going to go game-to-game, series-to-series. We'll see if we think our pitching is vulnerable.
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There's a lot of pieces that remind you of the old Busch, especially in a 3 o'clock game when it's about 5 and you can't hardly see. It think it's a beautiful ballpark.
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That shows you what Juan is capable of doing. We don't win that game without him being a hero, a star.
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That's how he pitched early in the year. He just got in a funk. In the middle of that funk, he had a couple of games like this and we couldn't score for him. ... This is what he's capable of doing.
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The bunting side of the game hasn't been the easiest thing for Chris and he's worked really hard,