Sliders Quotes

When Lidge is on the mound, throwing 90 [mph] sliders, he eats righties up... We needed a base hit there, and Chavez puts the ball in play. The more I thought about it, the more I realized I couldn't have done much different to get Howard up on the righty [in the seventh]. - Charlie Manuel

When (right-hander) Lidge is on the mound, throwing 90 miles-per-hour sliders, he eats righties up... We needed a base hit there. We didn't need a home run. Chavez puts the ball in play. The more I thought about it, more I realized I couldn't have done much different to get Howard up on the righty (in the seventh). - Charlie Manuel

We were concerned he was going to have a high pitch count early. But he had a good angle down in the zone. He threw some good sliders. In general, that's as good as he's looked in a long time. Unfortunately, his stamina isn't built up to where we'd like it to be. - Pete Mackanin

We only did one run. We might get three runs today to make up for it. I did place eighth out of 41 sliders, but it is definitely not an indication due to the weather. - Demetrios Stefanopolous

We hung a slider and Albert doesn't miss sliders too much. He doesn't miss pitches up in the zone. - Dusty Baker

Wags threw him two sliders that ate up his knuckles a little bit... He just was able to battle and stay alive. Like Willy does, he puts the ball in play and gave us a chance. - Craig Biggio

Tonight I made some bad pitches... They were hitting some sliders that were staying in the zone. - Brad Lidge

Their guy totally shut us down. A big, tall guy throwing sliders and sinkers. He totally ate us up. - Ron Gardenhire

The Canadians are phenomenal sliders. They have a lot of experience. They took to this track very well. They deserve a lot of credit. - Eric Bernotas