Larry Parrish Quotations

We need a starter to go deep. It's been a rough series for the bullpen, but so far they've been up to the task.

We're not centering. We've been late on the fastballs and out in front of the off-speed pitches. We're stuck in the middle.

Miner pitched well, and the guys in the bullpen have thrown strikes and gone after guys. They're making some pitches when they have to. I'm really feeling good right now about the way the bullpen has pitched in these first two games.

Obviously we're not swinging the bats good right now. And when you don't swing the bats good, it takes away from the energy of the club.

Right now it looks as if we're pressing. Guys are swinging at a lot of bad pitches. And when we're getting a pitch, we're not doing anything with it.

Basically tonight we just did not pitch very well. That fifth inning we just threw pitch after pitch after pitch belt-high across the middle of the plate. Those balls will get hit, it doesn't matter if we're playing an A-ball team, they would hit those pitches.

He located the ball well, pitched in and out, changed speeds, made it look easy.

To come in and throw strikes and get people out in a pressure situation like this was just outstanding. He showed a lot of poise.

God, that is a long time ago. It's not everything, but it's a start.

He's a valuable guy to have on your club. Whether he's playing, working with the other infielders, or on the bench, he brings a lot of energy. He's a special kid.

He's been working hard. We're trying to get him going. It's good for him to have success.

He's been walking a lot. We'd rather he hit it out of the ballpark, but other than that a walk's all right.

He's pitched well in both starts. We just didn't score any runs for him in his first outing. Any time you go out there and give up one run in two starts, that's a pretty good job.

He didn't get a lot of help behind the plate the other night, either. I watched the film, and there were a lot of strikes that he didn't get.

I thought Davis threw pretty good. He pitched better than giving up three runs. In the five games we've played, we could have won four of them easily if we were scoring runs and swinging the bats.

That was a tough one to lose. We thought about leaving Gardner in, but he hadn't pitched in three weeks. We were kind of behind the 8-ball there, and we did what we had to do.

That was an awful big play for us. It came at the right time for us.

That's unfortunate, because he's a solid guy. Somebody's going to have to step it up a little bit and fill that role.

You don't expect guys that's in the big leagues to come down here and try to be a part of our team again, and see us do well, and maybe go all the way. That's been the trademark of this club, how well they've got along and pulled for each other all year.

We had a lot of chances to score, but we can't get a hit with the bases loaded. I think we're 0-for-the-year with the bases loaded.

We definitely can't overcome any mistake, any bad pitch, anything.

We didn't pitch well all the way around, didn't make any quality pitches. Colby was up in the strike zone and couldn't keep the ball down. But everybody threw like that.

We didn't know anything about Lee, and we might not have given him enough respect.

We couldn't have done it without the support of the fans and we are excited to get out there and try to bring another championship back to Toledo.

It was another tough one to lose. We had a lot of chances tonight to blow the game open but we never could get a big hit. It came back to bite us.

There was no way we could be that bad. Maybe we've got a few hits coming to us the next few days.

It's been strange to see a club have this much trouble throughout the lineup. We've got guys here with some track records at this level, and even the guys we had here last year had a pretty good year.

It's just something that everybody has to deal with.

It's not so much one guy, but you got a flu bug like that, you worry about it going through the locker room.

It's the first game, and there's a lot of games left. I don't foresee our offense being much of a problem.

It shouldn't be a concern for him, it should concern me that we're not scoring.

It's pretty heavy - that's a pretty big trophy. But it was a good feeling. I'd like to do it again.

Don Kelly came up with a couple clutch hits for us tonight.

It was like Espinosa was out three times, and they never got him out. When a team's struggling and it finally scores, that takes the pressure off a little bit.

That's a key guy in our lineup, you need him and he took an 'ofer' in this series. If he doesn't go, then we don't go.

Every time you move up a level it's a jump, so I think they're going to be better this year than last year - not that they were bad last year. I just think everything will be easier for them this year.

I know right now the pitchers are fresh, but it looks like nerves. I think the adrenaline was kicking a little high.

I hope so, because it won't be cold all year. We're definitely not hitting on all cylinders.

I believe he thought Ryan was going to throw the ball to home plate. He took a pretty good hit.