Jerry Narron Quotations

Yes, it was (a good run). In the eighth, I thought we were going to win.

Milton did an outstanding job for us. We had the one big inning when we capitalized on their wildness.

No one in the world I thought would catch that ball.

Maybe Austin Kearns, Rich Aurilia, I don't know, maybe Felipe Lopez, too, might get some rest. Depends on what pitchers we face, too.

I don't care what park you pitch in, I expect you to get guys out. I think if you lower your expectations, you'll have guys happy to give up some runs sometimes. I just believe in wherever you're pitching, you go out there and try not give up a run. If you give up a run, you try not give up two.

He looked like he had pretty good movement. I don't know if they were sliders or cutters away from right-handed hitters. I'm sure when we're making outs early in the count like that, our guys are thinking they're getting good pitches to hit, and they were just missing them.

Holbert is a little better hitter than Olmedo against left-handers, ... And this was a chance to give Holbert a start. We're facing three left-handers in a row, so probably we'll play both.

He was just trying to drive it to the big part of the ballpark and get one, and he ended up getting all three.

He'll be able to pinch-run and play the outfield. I don't think he's close to being 100 percent with the bat.

He is one of the best ever to play the game, he is still one of the better players in the game today, one of the elite. It is so much fun to watch him and I'm just thankful he is healthy and having a season where he can let everybody see that he can still do it.

I think winning that ballgame with only five hits gave the guys confidence to go out and swing the bats.

LaRue's play is one that nobody talks about. That was the big play in a crucial part of the game.

I think everybody in baseball knows he's a good player. Playing in Tampa Bay like he did and then going to Seattle ... when you play in the same outfield with Ichiro (Suzuki), you're not going to be top dog, that's for sure.

We haven't been able to put up a crooked number. If we put up a crooked number, or have a big inning there, we have a chance to win the ballgame.

We did so many things wrong that we didn't deserve to win that game. I don't even know how we were in it. But you're going to have innings like that. They've got some good hitters.

We pitched well. It gave us a chance to win some games.

There have been times we haven't used Randy Keisler because he's our long guy. This might free up Keisler for a hitter or two early in the game.

There have been a couple of errors where guys have tried to do too much. We've had some errors that are just careless throwing errors. We can not make careless errors. You're going to have enough errors without just giving away bases. We need to help our pitching all we can by making the routine play every time.

We got some big hits from Dunn and Griffey. Griff's big three-run homer was huge for us at the time of the ballgame ... I like the way we played.

We had some chances, and we had some pretty good at-bats, but we had nothing to show for it. We just didn't get a big hit when we needed it.

Eric Milton just did a great job for us, gave us a chance to win the ballgame. He didn't deserve to lose that game.

Felipe is going to hit. You won't see anybody up there red-hot all the time. He's a very good hitter from both sides of the plate.

I've seen Tim Hudson since '99 and I thought Holby might need another day. If Ramirez had been pitching, he would have been in there.

Right now, we'll just really go slow with him, make sure he's healthy and don't overuse him.

It sounds like, hopefully, later in the week, he'll be ready to go, ... He's day to day. We'll just have to see how he is every day.

Everybody around here who's seen how hard he worked and how much he wants to play and what he's gone through the last couple of years, you don't want to see him walk off the field like we did.

It was poor management on my part. I should've gone out after the second one and said, 'Don't try it unless you can make a strong, accurate throw.' I should've told him before the game.

I'm sure everyone that's talked to him since the day he signed has encouraged him to do that more often. It's going to help him get some balls through the infield.

I just wanted to make sure the field was playable and I'm just thankful everyone got threw it with nobody getting hurt,

I really haven't looked enough to be able to tell you. But we have a pretty good core.

He's one of the greatest players ever to play the game. When you talk about center fielders like Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays and Mantle, he's up there with them. If he hadn't missed the last three-four years with injuries, he'd probably have at least 100 more homers.

He's one of the best to every play the game, and he's still one of the better players in baseball today. But he's in that elite group with anybody who's ever been on the field. It's a lot of fun to watch him. We're thankful that he's healthy and he can still show everyone he can still do it.

He's one of the best to ever play the game. He's still one of the better players in baseball today, still in that elite group today. But he's in that elite group with anybody who's ever been out there on the field. It's a lot of fun to watch him.

A lot of times in this league, guys get the day off and they end up contributing big,