Frank Robinson Needed Quotations

The bullpen has come through a lot of times this year. We needed the bullpen tonight and they did a tremendous job,

We had a lot of chances, we just didn't cash in. We couldn't get the hits we needed and we gave away too many runs. We're not making them earn them.

You've seen how ugly it's been and how desperate we needed to win a game. Hopefully, this will get us going.

That's what we were hoping he could do when we got him. Tonight he had one of those games and we needed it.

He didn't have enough. We needed a better performance out of him to have a chance to win the game.

This might be the one we needed to put us over the top before this thing is over.

I can't explain how badly we needed this.

I just felt like it's better for him to stay in his regular turn, and that way everybody else stays in their regular turn. Ramon can go down to the bullpen and help us out there if needed until his turn comes up again.

Absolutely, I knew it was a good move. If we needed to make a move at shortstop, it wouldn't be a drop-off defensively. ... We didn't have that last year.