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“I saw better life to his fastball, much better life. I can't sit here and tell you what the velocity was, but that will come as he builds himself up. But the life on his fastball, it was there tonight.”
Jim Tracy
“There's a lot of things that go into the equation in formulating a team, the way the pieces fit and complement each other. Character has always been an important issue with me. It goes hand in hand with chemistry.”
“He has a lot of different things to work out. There are two players [Kent being the other] coming together that has to take place. They have to get on the same page, period.”
“Another night where we took a ballclub to the limit and fortunately things worked out for us. I don't really know where we'd be without Kent.”
“We'll just see where he's at physically. If he gets to the point where he's physically able to pitch, yeah, there's some benefit to getting him out there before the season ends. Absolutely, there is.”
“The fact that [Saenz] is facing an offspeed guy and dealing with his oblique strain, you don't want him out there lunging after a changeup and ripping that oblique.”
“Will we get to that in the last two weeks of the season? We'll get to it.”
“It was a great pitch. There's only one guy in the game that could have hit it.”
“One of the toughest things in the world when you're playing on the road is a leadoff walk in the bottom of the ninth, and that's exactly what happened. It's tough. It's unfortunate. It's something more times than not, it will come back to haunt you, and it did.”
“He made a very good pitch to Linden. In other circumstances, it's a bat that's broken in half and a soft single to right field, but as a result of the sacrifice bunt that followed a walk, it was a game-winning hit.”
