Adam Kennedy Quotations

We've seen him have a lot of life on his ball before, with that tough cutter. He didn't have it today. ... He still battled, but he did not have a lot on the ball.

There is no doubt about it. It is a big situation, a big game, a fun game. It is fun to play defense like that and make big plays for your pitcher.

Hopefully they'll run out of dirt to dig up. I don't know if anything positive will come out of it anyway.

I wouldn't say it surprised me, but you have to stay ready. On nights like this when you get the opportunity, you want to be ready. Sometimes it works for you and sometimes it doesn't.

I wouldn't say I'm surprised. You just deal with it.

It is a little early to speculate or for this to be an issue. You don't have the 3-4 at-bats that you normally would so if I get up, I'll just try and be aggressive. That works for me anyway.

I was just trying to stay aggressive and try not to fall behind in the count.

We didn't play very well. We played well in a couple, but not so well otherwise. Our offense just didn't really get going.

To not let things get out of hand against a good offense is as big as us scoring some late runs.

Everything is true, from what he's done in the Minors to what we saw in Spring Training. When you have that bat that can help your team, there has to be an upside to bringing him up.

Every day's pretty big from here on out. It's unfortunate Oakland won tonight and we lose, but it probably won't be the last time that happens.

Randy threw well tonight. We got some things going off of Johnson and when we did, we got some runs out of it. I hit a fastball in, and all I wanted to do was keep it fair and hit it hard.

Offensively, you can argue there are some teams out there that are a little bit more well-balanced than us, especially with the power.

Despite their record, they make it tough on you. Everybody in this league comes to play, especially now. They understand the stakes for us, so they're not laying down.

You're going to have your 0-for-4 days, but you don't want to have days on defense when you're going to cost the pitcher a run or two, so you have to stay sharp on defense.

They seem to be playing pretty good, so everyone in the American League has their work cut out for them. It doesn't really matter that we got to their bullpen. I mean, what's the difference? Freddy didn't have his great stuff tonight and he still battled through six innings.

A lot of new bats have a handle that bends on impact. I don't really like that. They don't seem to have as much pop.

It's very comforting to look in today's starters and see his name.

It was not very well played by us. It is tough to expect a win when we don't play very well.

I really think it's all in your head. I always say it's just the bat and the ball. If you're a good hitter, you're a good hitter.

In the playoffs, you're going to see good pitching so it's going to take everybody. But having Garret swing the bat like that will be big for us.

I had him played a little to the hole, a step closer to the bag to try and make the double play. I could see on the first two pitches that he wasn't trying to do too much. I took a step to my right to try and cover a little more ground.

It has to be that way. We've done it before, when you go through a streak and rely on one guy and the offense doesn't work that way.

Claxton's a community that works well together. They pull together, especially in tough times. They celebrate, if there's something to celebrate, the community comes together to celebrate. If we go through a tough time, the community comes together and supports each other.

Homers are nice, especially with men on base. But we don't sit around waiting for them.

If guys get in a slump, they go buy a more expensive bat, thinking they're going to do better. Some guys constantly rotate bats.

I can only play well and continue to try and help the team and that will speak for itself. Whatever happens, so be it and make the decision tough. I'm not trying to think about it as him versus me, but both of us working together. I think that is the way to look at it.