“Being able to pinch-hit and get [the two-run homer Saturday] and this ... I don't know what's going on.”
Michael Barrett
“I was waiting for something to happen, anything, and then Nick hit a three-run homer. We won it 4-3. Nick was the guy.”
Brian LoForte
“If I hit a homer, it doesn't matter. We still would have been down by a bunch of runs. I was trying to at least get on base. If Manny hits a homer, we're closer.”
David Ortiz
“Hal talked about Scott's last two pinch-hitting appearances [before the homer] and the fact that he drew two walks. That was two very good at-bats where he was seeing the ball.”
Tony La Russa
“You still have to have the punch to hit a three-run homer when you need it.”
Dusty Baker
“Tonight's game was almost a mirror image of last week's game (when Tampa's Derek Lee hit a two-run homer off Batista in the ninth to give the D-Rays a 3-2 victory),”
Russ Adams
“We almost caught a break there. But then he hit the three-run homer. We all saw that it hit the ground, and Kendall scooped it.”
Ken Macha
