Sometimes when you’re discouraged you need a good baseball platitude. Sometimes you need ten good baseball platitudes. These were all culled from columns published in the last few days, hence the omission of some of the classics.
“I feel more and more comfortable every day here. It’s a great clubhouse and a great team, and I just want to do my part.”
“I feel good with where I’m at the last couple starts. I feel like I’ve thrown the ball a lot better. I just try to build off that.”
“We made some really good pitches. It just didn’t work out for us.”
“We know he’s strong. He’s got all the skills. We’re going to have some ups and downs and be a little patient with him.”
“I could tell in the first inning that I had good stuff and was able to throw strikes when I needed to.”
“There’s still a lot of games left, but to come out and get this final game, I think, is big.”
“We’ve been swinging the bats well and it was just one of those adjustment periods we had to go through and get back after it the next day.”
“I feel pretty good. I’ve just been throwing a lot of strikes, trying to control the walks and just pound the strike zone and that helped me a lot.”
“You look at the skill sets, and the skill sets will tell you he has an opportunity to be successful.”
“Every game matters, and the more we can continue to have big at-bats like we did today… we’ll get on a nice roll and win more than we’re going to lose.”