Bruce Bochy Hard Quotations

We're getting hit pretty hard right now, especially with the way spring was going. We were in excellent shape, right until the final days.

We know how good a team they have. Some things are hard to explain. There are some teams we should have a better record against and don't.

Lowe was tough on us today. He is coming off some well-pitched games, and we didn't hit that many balls hard early. A sinkerballer gets groundballs, and that's what he has been able to do against us.

I think it's been a while since there's been a division that's struggled as much as us, or has been devastated by injuries as much as we have. I think sometimes everybody loses sight of how hard every team has been hit by injuries.

It doesn't happen often, does it? It's something you never think about. It was relentless, and there's some hard stuff coming in. It was getting sloppy out there.

We've discovered the hard way there's no way to pitch to him. He's such a disciplined hitter at the plate and has such good plate coverage, it's almost like you can't even trust your pitchers to pitch around him. You've just got to intentionally walk him.

We fought hard to try to get back to winning the game, ... but the bottom line is we didn't play well tonight.

We shot ourselves in the foot a couple innings there, and that was the difference in the ballgame. We fought hard to try to get back to winning the game, and came close, but bottom line is we didn't play well tonight.

We had a hard time figuring Hernandez out. He sure looked like the same guy as in '98. He mixed his pitches up and hit spots.

Bottom line is we didn't play well. I thought we beat ourselves. Then we battled hard to steal it and we came up short.

It would be hard to put together a better game than we did.

I've never seen anything quite like this. It is hard to figure out what is going on. It has us buffaloed.

This guy is an impact player. I think this was a big signing for us. I've always admired how Mike plays the game. He plays the game hard and he plays it right.

It's a different game if that gets through. It was hard not getting a run there. That's a tough one because we played very well until the eighth.

For him to be swinging the way he is with the long layoff, ... it's a credit to how hard he worked in rehab. He's one of those guys with a simple swing. It doesn't take long to get it going.

It's hard to throw much better than that. He made it look easy out there.

It's hard to throw much better than that, ... He made it look easy. He had great command, good sinking action and was getting ground balls. He made adjustments, and it looks like he took it out there.

It's hard to play any better than we did.

It's good to see him out there. He's worked hard to get to this point.

How we go about things as far as stations is a little different, but nothing major. We always work hard on fundamentals, and we've turned up the volume on that.