He was only supposed to go two innings, but the way he threw, we stretched him out to three. He had real good command of his fastball and a real good breaking ball.


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JOE TORRE
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DANNY LABASAN
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He threw the ball real well.
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AARON MISASI
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MIKE BABCOCK
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GARY HUGHES
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TERRY FRANCONA
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JASON HANSON
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WILLIE FOSTER
Mike runs good routes, and he's always making the big play, ... He pulled down a few high balls I th...
MATT MOORE
Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real qu...
MIKE TYSON
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We need a guy in that role who's not afraid to swing the bat. And this guy is not afraid.
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Gil's been in the big leagues awhile,
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Two-out hits to drive in runs are huge. They are momentum killers to the other side.
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Real shallow breaths in the ninth. But at least I was still breathing.
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It's amazing how you can catch my eye by throwing strikes.
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We might hold him back and just have him throw on the side. But we're not there yet.
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MIKE HARGROVE
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MIKE HARGROVE
I don't see how Bob Wolcott wins that game had Dan Wilson not been behind the plate.
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We got too far behind.
MIKE HARGROVE
The biggest question? Scoring runs. Anyway we can, by hook or crook, that's what we're going to do.
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We didn't know what we were going to get out of him. We only sent him out there for two. He did an o...
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He's thrown strikes when he's pitched. He's shown a good breaking ball, which we knew he had.
MIKE HARGROVE
Jeff came in and threw strikes. He competed. And he's versatile, too. He can start, he can relieve, ...
MIKE HARGROVE
J.J has pitched well. He got a bit excited when he got two strikes on Newhan and he started to overt...
MIKE HARGROVE
He's stronger and a little more sure of himself. It is early, but it's obvious he worked real hard t...
MIKE HARGROVE
He was disappointed. If he continues to pitch the way he's pitching now and stays healthy, he's goin...
MIKE HARGROVE
If he stays healthy, we'll be able to get him back on track.
MIKE HARGROVE
I didn't like having to sit there and watch that.
MIKE HARGROVE
When I had Richie in Cleveland he did this once, and I told him he looked like a Q-Tip. Maybe when h...
MIKE HARGROVE
As long as we're the ones who have one or two more than the other team, it doesn't matter either way...
MIKE HARGROVE
We weren't sure if he caught it just before he hit or as he hit. After he hit the ground, we were gl...
MIKE HARGROVE
When you load the bases with no outs, you want to score more than one run. When we added Lopez's two...
MIKE HARGROVE
They pitched extremely well; at least three of them did. When we got to them, it was because they lo...
MIKE HARGROVE
But really, there's no way to prepare for it. It's the only pitch I ever went to swing at and was ne...
MIKE HARGROVE
At about the 85 to 90 pitch mark, I don't know if he got a little tired and stopped over-throwing or...
MIKE HARGROVE
He's pitched well every outing. The last two have been exceptionally well pitched. But he's been goo...
MIKE HARGROVE
We didn't know we could get three innings out of him. We sent him out there to get two. But he did s...
MIKE HARGROVE
That was the big out of the inning. You get one out in that situation and there's a few things you c...
MIKE HARGROVE
We've made a substantial amount of change, but no one is going to be thrown out of the street.
BUZZ HARGROVE
We've made a substantial amount of change, but no one is going to be thrown out on the street.
BUZZ HARGROVE
It shows that even in tough bargaining, if the union and the company meet their responsibilities, a ...
BUZZ HARGROVE
It's going to strike a lot of Windsor families today when they get this news.
BUZZ HARGROVE
working on finalizing an agreement that balances the needs of the CAW, our employees and the company...
BUZZ HARGROVE
I think that was a short-term view of the values of Canada.
BUZZ HARGROVE
This has been a very difficult and challenging set of negotiations with General Motors. The challeng...
BUZZ HARGROVE
We're certainly working towards a settlement and quite frankly, I'd like to do it before the 20th, g...
BUZZ HARGROVE
Every member of our union realizes it's not business as usual anymore.
BUZZ HARGROVE
Given the current economic context that we're in, this is not the richest-ever agreement that we hav...
BUZZ HARGROVE
It's a major restructuring. I don't want to downplay it,
BUZZ HARGROVE
You can't sit here and blame field position, because that's what we get paid to do, stop them. No ma...
ANTHONY HARGROVE
they build in Tokyo. They build in Hiroshima. They build anywhere they find a big enough dock to shi...
BUZZ HARGROVE
It was a tough set of bargaining, ... To get that kind of endorsement from the membership is just ex...
BUZZ HARGROVE
They're demanding major outsourcing of our jobs, not because they need it but because they think the...
BUZZ HARGROVE
That means two or three more vehicles per shift,
BUZZ HARGROVE
I don't want to downplay what Cordiano and those guys did ... but at no time in the discussions did ...
BUZZ HARGROVE
We faced one of the most difficult challenges in bargaining that we have in a good many years.
BUZZ HARGROVE
Right now, as the president of the union, I'm looking to moving to DaimlerChrysler,
BUZZ HARGROVE
Chrysler made it very clear to us when we were doing our probing to try to find out where we could g...
BUZZ HARGROVE
Chrysler made it very clear to us when we were doing our probing, to try to find out where we could ...
BUZZ HARGROVE
Chrysler made it very clear to us when we were doing our probing, to try to find out where we could ...
BUZZ HARGROVE
We got no assistance from the Red Cross, period. Not from the local, state or national chapters.
GARY HARGROVE
I'm not very optimistic at this point, ... The big thing is the demand on jobs that they have, on ou...
BUZZ HARGROVE
That's just the love here in St. Louis. They're just crazy about their teams.
ANTHONY HARGROVE
To me, it's just like going against 'Big O' (Orlando Pace) every day, ... Now, I get to face 'Big O'...
ANTHONY HARGROVE
I just try to be a comfort to everybody if they have any family in the area. I'm kind of preparing t...
ANTHONY HARGROVE
Somebody's going to end up 0-2 this week. We just hope it's not us.
ANTHONY HARGROVE
For our organization it's a rivalry game, because every year it's always a battle for the division. ...
ANTHONY HARGROVE
That's a tough one, ... I really couldn't put a finger on it.
ANTHONY HARGROVE
I was totally shocked when I didn't see him out there. I really didn't realize it till we started do...
ANTHONY HARGROVE
We've still got a ways to go. We're not at Max Q; we're at Max L.
ANTHONY HARGROVE
We just haven't reached our potential yet. We haven't reached Max Q yet.
ANTHONY HARGROVE
We're not afraid of change, we embrace change. But not at the expense of our members and their famil...
BUZZ HARGROVE
It's become more difficult than we anticipated.
BUZZ HARGROVE