Mark Haley Quotations

We've seen them a lot, we know what they have. And they have good pitching. It'll be a battle.

Give that kid credit, he stayed down and changed speeds a lot. We hit a lot of balls off the end of the bat.

He had no feel for his curve ball.

He got sick. He broke out in a fever so he had to come out of the game. We've got seven or eight guys coming down with the flu.

He made an adjustment, that's what you have to in this game.

He's a sinker-slider guy who can get you the strikeout when you need it.

Jackson has overcome a lot of adversity, and had struggled with his ERA this season. To win this championship we needed someone to step up like he did. He should be the most valuable player of this series.

Just one or two pitches, and then things got out of hand. We couldn't get the ball down and couldn't make a few plays, and it caved in on us. It was all of a sudden, boom. It was a great 2-1 ball game, and then ... you've got to make pitches. And the bullpen has been a bright spot for us this season. They've been strong for us. They gave it up tonight, but they've been consistent.

That was his first bunt hit of the year.

Those guys can flat out hit. Fortunately our pitching was able to minimize the damage from the errors.

We don't have a lot of secrets left, so everybody's got to step up. I think we have enough weapons that they can't key on one kid to shut us down. It's pretty much my best athletes against your best athletes.

We let him off the hook. He didn't have good command of the strike zone, and we needed to be more disciplined. We chased a lot of balls out of the strike zone.

This was a nice one for us to get today. I'm really happy for Manuel. He battled and battled to get the count to 2-0. He then got a fast ball and was able to take it the other way, which is exactly what you're supposed to do in that situation.

Bonifacio saw the base wasn't covered, but you can't be that aggressive in the first inning. But I'll never fault anyone for being aggressive.

I wanted five good innings. Kellen Raab was going to be ready if we needed him. But Jackson just kept going and going.

Running behind all those big guys, he can get lost in there. That's an advantage for him.

Raab made some good pitches when he needed to.

After missing out on a chance to score more runs in the sixth and then not getting that bunt down, it was certainly nice to see Manual pick us up after that. It's also definitely a good feeling to put together a couple of wins after going through some struggles like we did.

This is part of development, too. It's that way in Cleveland and New York. If you're going to play in the big leagues, you'd better get used to it.

They did what they had to do to stay alive in this series, but you know the attitude of our kids. They'll be out there battling (tonight).

I told him no way. I'm a baseball guy.

They kept coming at us. But our size took them over.

After two strikes, it was his call to bunt or not. Bonafacio has been a big part of our offense.

I keep preaching to the guys it's how you end the game that matters the most. Our bullpen really stepped up and did their job to preserve this one for us.

If you had told me that Alberto Gonzalez would make two errors in the first inning, I'd have bet my mortgage against it.

I feel confident. All season we've gone day-to-day, you forget about yesterday. Now there's no tomorrow. These guys battle all the way, you saw that in the last inning tonight.

He's maturing. He's coming along. We're breaking him of some bad habits.