Jeromy Burnitz Win Quotations

I've been battling lately. Today I was just trying to really stay on the ball a little bit more. It was a high fastball and I got under it and put a good swing and hit it really good.

Trace is a real well-spoken guy and he's got his points laid out. Let's play the game correctly and let's achieve something. That's the message that I got from him. Let's get it on and do our jobs correctly and win more games than this organization has won in the past couple of years.

It's been going like this for a while -- pretty much since Day 1. We just need to keep showing up and execute better than we are.

We've shown we're capable of showing up for the battle.

Is it frustrating? Of course it is. The last thing you want to do is start the year off like this. I'm confident we're going to win -- sooner or later, hopefully sooner.

There are two distinct advantages here. The pitches don't break as much and because of the outfield, you can get a lot of hits even when you don't put a good swing on the ball.