Keith Mitchell Quotations

Just when you think it's going to be easy, it's not. We had one error through six innings and then maybe we just start pressing late.

It's very believable. This guy sounded very official, but it wasn't true.

We were pitching well at times, hitting the ball well. But those extra outs, that's what kills us the most. You can say it over and over again, and we have as a staff. If you don't make plays, you're not going to win a lot of games. We spent two hours on defense today in practice. And we looked good. It's one of those things where it's got to carry over to games.

There seems to be no cure for it. Our pitchers are doing their best to pitch around them, but they just keep innings alive and eat up pitches.

His reaction is a little different. That's one of the reasons he's trying to go after some of those balls. Sometimes you have to know where your infield is.

When things aren't going well, situations like that happen. Every year, a team will go through something like that. Eventually, we're going to be making the plays, we're going to win the close games and everything's going to turn around. It's a strange game, but it works out like that.

I think it's really important that we get off to a good start for their egos, so to speak. They need to build confidence, especially at this level. Winning games does that. Success does that. Can they bounce back from a bad game? A bad slump? They haven't experienced that.

He didn't try to do anything extra. He just went with the pitch and did what he had to do. That was a great piece of hitting with two strikes.

Three or four more starts like that and he'll be out of here. There's big difference for him from last year to this year. He brings more control. ... With our club, it's really been somebody different every day. But our pitching has been the key.

We felt that we owed the Cuban people, especially Fidel, a special sense of gratitude for what he did for Grenada in the building of this extremely important facility,