Jim Tracy Obviously Quotations

Derek Lowe was obviously the show today. One chopped, two-strike swing from a no-hitter. That's basically what it boiled down to today.

Stranger things have happened in this game. But obviously we have to win a number of our remaining games and obviously we need some help. San Diego has to lose some games in a row and we have to capitalize on that.

Once we get to the point of a second opinion and finding out exactly where that's going to take us, that's obviously the next thing that we're waiting for. In the interim, there's no need to speculate on anything about it.

You can't make a mistake against that club like we did in the fifth inning. I don't know who was calling (for the ball), but obviously you need to catch that ball.

I think it'll put a few more rear ends in the seats. The fact Washington is still very much in it will add to the intrigue. Obviously people go out to see him, no doubt about that.

Most of us still obviously know tendencies of their guys.

That's a tough game to lose, and obviously we're being tested early.

We obviously came to a point in Los Angeles where there was a difference of opinion between Paul and I as far as how players are evaluated.

Those hits in games like this are obviously huge. We did very little offensively for the majority of the night.

We still have some games to play in 2005. The landscape could obviously change one day to the next over the course of the winter. I really don't feel like sitting here and expounding on what I think it's going to look like.

Is he a candidate to have an opportunity to make the club? I don't know the answer to that. We'll take it a day at a time and see how he progresses from a health standpoint. If he comes along quicker, that obviously creates more options for us.

One-and-7 obviously isn't the way you want to start. But the (Dodgers) team I managed last year started 12-2 and we won 71 games. So it's not a large enough sample size of games. It doesn't mean this is the kind of team we're going to be for the next six months.