Mike Hargrove Innings Quotations

He pitched two innings in relief in Toronto, so we're not expecting 120 pitches from him. But we haven't set a firm pitch count for him yet. We will before he pitches, but I'd love to see four or five innings from him.

It's awfully difficult going into the late innings with a one-run lead, especially the ninth inning. One swing of the bat can tie it up.

How we're going to limit his innings remains to be seen. We can drop him down in the rotation ... when we have days off, we can skip his turn. There's a lot of things we can talk about. We haven't settled on any one strategy; it may be a combination of plans. But the one thing is that we don't want this kid going out there throwing 250 innings.

We really needed somebody to come in and shut the Indians down. Seeing how well they're swinging the bats, that's not an easy proposition. He gave us two very good innings and almost gave us three. We really extended him and he responded well.

I'm not going to talk about the umpire. Let's talk about something we can control, ... The first two innings were very non-typical of his outings this year.

I think he got a little frustrated and got out of his rhythm, but he settled back in and the last couple innings he threw well. Hopefully this will get him going.

We pitched well for four innings and we didn't pitch well for five. The sad thing is you need to pitch well for nine innings.