Alan Trammel Game Quotations

This is six games in a row that we've been pounded. That doesn't sit well with anybody. We need to stop this.

We still have 26 games to go. I refuse to give in.

We want to win as many games as we can, ... but not at the expense of losing somebody like that for possibly longer.

We battled and we didn't give up. We still lost but I'll stand by that. We talked about this before - that's the kind of game there's a good chance you're going to get into playing here.

We stayed in the game but then they got a couple of hits.

We haven't had too many of these games lately. Carlos comes out right from the get-go with a home run, and it seemed to kind of snowball from there.

Hopefully we can get his pitch count up so he can go deeper into the game the next time out. He'll be limited the first time out, though. We can't let him go 100 pitches.

I just think with the options we have that it's my best option, ... even though he has not pitched well. He has pitched some good games and he's capable in my mind, but it hasn't been real pretty here lately.

We've been pounded in seven games out of eight -- that's long. I was hoping we could piggyback yesterday's performance and get us a little momentum going.

Somewhere after the All-Star break he started dropping down a little more, especially to the right-handed hitters. He has just been pitching lights-out. He's tough. There's no question about it. He was the story of the game tonight.

We broke out. It's been a while, hasn't it? To win the series, win the last two games in a row after a losing streak, after a rough couple of weeks. We usually bounce back every time. We'll see.

With the options we have right now, Sean remains our best one, even though he's not pitched well and it hasn't been pretty lately. I think he's capable in my mind -- he's pitched some good games -- but I think his confidence right now is a big part of it.