Ballgame Quotes

You've got to re-do your game for a scrambler like Young and make sure he's accounted for at all times. It's a whole new ballgame. - Pat Massey

You've got to play a full ballgame. Some little things hurt us in the beginning, but we didn't give up. - Mike Shimek

You've got bases loaded, nobody out and don't get anybody home, and you've got first and third earlier [in the fifth] and a double play erased that. It was very symbolic of our season. It seems like we get in that situation and we don't get anything out of it. It's very frustrating. I thought we had a great chance to win that ballgame right there. - Dusty Baker

You're always hoping for a no-hitter when a guy goes that deep in a ballgame. We figured it'd be Eckstein who would break it up. He's a good little ballplayer. It's hard to corral him. - Dusty Baker

You tried the kids to [get you through the early innings] and they didn't do the job, so you might as well go the other way... Instead of saving those guys in the back end ... we'll start one of those guys that could keep us in the ballgame. - Frank Robinson

You sure would like to (get Lee in the game)... We haven't gotten control of a ballgame enough to get him the work that I would like to get him. We might force ourselves to do it earlier this week. - Bobby Bowden

You look forward to the ballgame a little more, knowing that you can sidetrack somebody's chances. - Lou Piniella

You have to really know who's in the ballgame because that's going to affect what type of plays they're going to run. The guys on the backside really have to keep the edge because Parker's not afraid to take it all the way around the other way. - Grant Wistrom

You get the out and all of a sudden you get pulled out, ... I don't like it. The sixth inning, it's still early in the ballgame. It feels like I'm back in the National League. They do that a lot over there. - David Wells