“Nobody likes to see a two-run homer. But I do like the way he handled it.”
Terry Francona
“Nobody wants to see a two-run homer, ... But I do like the way he handled himself. That's a lot to ask of this kid, but we're trying to have more weapons. And he's got a lot of them. He just didn't get the ball in far enough.”
“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
“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
“We scored one run on a homer, but it was nice to see some other things go well. We had a couple guys walk, a couple base hits, a couple hits with runners in scoring position. Those are the little things you have to do to win. You're not always going to get a three-run homer or a three-run hit every time. You have to do the small things, and that's what we did today.”
Rich Aurilia
“Jon pitched well. He gave up a two-run homer in the first but he settled down after that and kept us in the game.”
Vin Abene
“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
