Derek Jeter Early Quotations

You can tell with Moose early on; right from the get-go, the first hitter he struck out on three different pitches.

It's always easier to hit when it's a low-scoring game and your pitcher is doing the job. It all starts with pitching. Our offense got so much publicity early on, but pitching is the most important thing.

He's as tough as any pitcher in baseball. We tried to score early and Robby had the big hit.

We had some opportunities to score early and we let Boomer off the hook.

From playing with him, if you don't capitalize on him early he gets stronger. You hope it doesn't come back to haunt you, but looking at it now we wished we could have gotten a couple more runs there. But he made good pitches and he got out of the inning and then we had opportunities later in the game and didn't do anything with it.

He got into trouble early on but he pitched out. That's exactly what we needed.

It all starts with pitching. This offense got so much publicity early on, but you're going to win if you pitch. We've got a lot of guys who know how to pitch.