You can't have a better at-bat. He hit the [heck] out of the ball down the first-base line and Niekro was in the spot where he needed to be or that would have been a three-run double.

247

The fact that [Saenz] is facing an offspeed guy and dealing with his oblique strain, you don't want him out there lunging after a changeup and ripping that oblique.

210

Will we get to that in the last two weeks of the season? We'll get to it.

205

He has a lot of different things to work out. There are two players [Kent being the other] coming together that has to take place. They have to get on the same page, period.

183

We'll just see where he's at physically. If he gets to the point where he's physically able to pitch, yeah, there's some benefit to getting him out there before the season ends. Absolutely, there is.

171

Another night where we took a ballclub to the limit and fortunately things worked out for us. I don't really know where we'd be without Kent.

163

It was a great pitch. There's only one guy in the game that could have hit it.

152

One of the toughest things in the world when you're playing on the road is a leadoff walk in the bottom of the ninth, and that's exactly what happened. It's tough. It's unfortunate. It's something more times than not, it will come back to haunt you, and it did.

120

He made a very good pitch to Linden. In other circumstances, it's a bat that's broken in half and a soft single to right field, but as a result of the sacrifice bunt that followed a walk, it was a game-winning hit.

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