No, I didn't realize that he hadn't hit a home run. But he picked a good time to hit one.

He got off to a real good start and hit a bad spell where he was fatigued. Once he got through that, he's been pretty good.

When you come down the stretch like we are, ... good teams hit the ball.

I told him to hit one out, ... I told him to relax, make sure you stay on the ball and track it. He went up there with that idea.

Chavez has to hit there after we use [Michael] Tucker and Howard, ... Lidge throws one of those 90 mile per hour sliders that eats right-handers up. We thought that Chavez could put the ball in play. All we needed was a base hit, and we win the ballgame. We didn't need a home run

He?s going to leave the park if he swings at good balls. He just hit through that pitch. It was already up (in the zone) and he popped it out of the yard.