Quotes about innings
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We're going to familiarize ourselves with (Hernandez) so we can get a pretty good idea, as we enter the season, of what we can expect with him as far as workload goes. I don't want to say, though, that because he threw 125 innings or so last year, that he's not capable of throwing 180 or 190 innings this year. It will all be based on how he feels.
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Joe Girardi We're going to have innings for all our starters, whether we carry 11 or 12 pitchers.
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We're going to have a strong battery. Our pitching gives us the luxury of a lot of good innings defensively.
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Scott Kazmir Us in the late innings -- we're tough, real tough. You know that they're going to break out. It's a good thing to see us not giving up in the late innings.
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We're a young team, but I thought we settled down in the second and third innings and played better defense. I liked the defense overall.
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We're a young and inexperienced team, which can make things difficult, but I saw some real improvements defensively today. We had a few good innings where our defense really came through for us.
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We've added two innings starters, we've added some team speed, we've improved our defense, we've increased our depth in the bullpen. So I feel good about that. But we still have some things left to do. We'll continue to be aggressive.
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We still need more intensity to start the game, as we left eight runners on base in the first three innings. Over the last four innings we concentrated more on what had to be done.
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Stephen Fleming We're in pretty good shape moving forward but I think we have got to get better still. There are some areas we need to touch up - we probably need 10 runs or so more each innings and more strike-power when we bowl.
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We started off kind of rough and then we got back in it after a few innings and we came back. We were just sort of rusty pitching wise coming off the Spring Break. We still hit the ball well and defensively we didn't have any errors. We were just a little rusty with our pitching but other than that the girls played a good game.
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We started off early. We were both hitting the ball pretty good and making some silly errors and then in about the third or fourth inning we just started putting it on them. We had two innings in a row where they didn't even hit the ball. Three up, three down. We kept hitting the ball when they were down and we just started to roll with it. We ended up ten run-ruling them.
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Kevin Towers We're not going to rush him. We're not going to hold him back, either. But I'd like to see him get more innings at the professional level.
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We're still in the first or second innings of the ballgame of replacing Greenspan. But it's not like the game hasn't begun.
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Clint Hurdle We've got different plans for Bonds. We're only going to pitch to him in innings that end in vowels.
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We did not execute on the simple parts of the game tonight. We were not ready mentally and when we got focused, the damage had been done. Hopefully, we can come out and be ready to play a full nine innings on Saturday.
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We did not commit a single error in the game. When you can go five innings in high school baseball without committing an error, you improve your chances of winning.
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Ron Gardenhire We did everything we could, ... You're in a pennant race. ... We're trying to win. Five runs in two innings -- you can't go with that.
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We'll see what happens Tuesday. If (Marquis) can get a couple innings on Tuesday, that would line him up for Saturday and then we'll see what goes from there.
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Through my years, I've felt a closer needed to pitch about 20 innings in the spring. But I like the course Coco is on. As long as he keeps building up and feeling good, I think he'll be fine.
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John Smoltz Ultimately, I did what I wanted to do. If I can throw seven innings the rest of the way and we sustain this lead, it's going to help me a lot.
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We have to get the players mentally ready to play seven innings every night.
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We have to get a quality start out of Tabor. Our bullpen has worked hard and we need to get five or six innings out of him and only give up two or three runs.
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We were asleep. Our bats were cold but (Fischer) did a good job against us. We finally started waking up in the sixth and seventh innings but it was way too late in a seven-inning game.
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We were trying to get some young guys some work, guys who hadn't been getting as many innings on the weekend. So that was the initial plan either way. So it worked out where a guy would struggle, but we had a guy ready to go.
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Potter threw a ton of innings last year, but we've got four, five guys that are pretty good. The consistency has been great because we don't have a No. 1. We haven't had a complete game yet and I don't know if we'll have one all year.
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Mike Maddux I was going to let him go out of the windup to 80 pitches. If anything was in the stretch, he was out. He could have finished that inning. But we had a number in our mind. You know six innings was a bonus.
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Phil Garner I would say he threw pretty good. He's probably a little bit rusty, but still threw pretty good. The first couple innings he was sharp. With the exception of a couple home runs, I thought he threw the ball pretty good. It was basically his first outing of the spring.
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I was pleased with the guys' hitting today. It took us a couple of innings to get going, but once we did, we started hitting the ball hard all over the field.
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Graeme Smith If we'd taken our opportunities, things could have been really different. Both guys we put down in the first innings went on to make hundreds.
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If we have a lead in the seventh inning and you're throwing him two innings and Frankie one, we're looking pretty good, ... Everybody knows what Escobar can do, and he's giving guys like myself and Brendan Donnelly some rest. And if you look at what we've done the past few weeks, we're as strong as we've ever been. That's a pretty good thing to have.
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Casey Fossum When I did get the call to start, it took about three games for me to build my innings up. Now, I can prepare myself to start, condition myself properly, space my throwing out, build up from the beginning this year and be ready to start. I think it's going to help me in the long run.
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We were counting on 200 innings from Brian this year.