“Everything was going fine. Then I walked the leadoff batter, and that's never good. I still felt like I was getting ahead of the hitters, but I just didn't make good pitches with two strikes.”
Brad Halsey
“It felt really, really good to get the first batter out of the way. I really liked the challenge with a man on second, two outs in a one-run game. The last thing I wanted to do was let that guy score.”
Chad Bentz
“Walks and hit batters are not a good formula against this club, ... They worked the daylights out of (Zito). One guy after another having five-, six-, seven-pitch at-bats — that's a task at getting through that batting order.”
Ken Macha
“Walks and hit batters are not a good formula against this club. They worked the daylights out of (Zito). One guy after another having five-, six-, seven-pitch at-bats — that's a task at getting through that batting order.”
“We just got sloppy at the end. We can't walk batters. We had way too many walks.”
Alan Watkins
“Walks and hit batters are not a good formula against this club, ... They worked the daylights out of [Zito]. One guy after another having five-, six-, seven-pitch at-bats -- that's a task at getting through that batting order.”
“I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.”
Randy Johnson
