More - Jim Tracy Quotes

It's important for him to remember to throw early strikes consistently. Fastball command is very important for Mike. If you have a guy who has the type of stuff he does, the ability to throw a consistent fastball is paramount.

Jim Tracy

 

One of the (enterprise zone) incentives that would help us out is that there's no sales tax on new construction materials,

Jim Tracy

 

It's a shame a guy pitched as well as Jeff Weaver did today and absorbed that loss. On the flip side, we had only three hits. You're not going to win with one run and three hits.

Jim Tracy

 

He has a tremendous baseball mind. When I have someone like that sitting next to me, I feel confident there is not too much that's going to get by us during the course of a game.

Jim Tracy

 Baseball

That was his best outing. He threw four pitches for strikes and he pounded the strike zone.

Jim Tracy

 

There was no way he was going back out after that. When a guy gets hit in the head, he's done for the day.

Jim Tracy

 

In the first inning we had great at-bats against Roy Oswalt. Command wise he was not sharp.

Jim Tracy

 Bats

Victor Santos pitched a terrific game. He pitched inside very effectively and it made his other pitches that much better.

Jim Tracy

 

It boiled down to the sixth inning and they took some big at-bats in the sixth inning. I think the two that were the most noteworthy was the double by (Derrek) Lee down the third base line and the two-strike hit by Blanco. That was hit in the perfect spot and found it's way through the middle of the field.

Jim Tracy

 Bats

What I've been very impressed with -- and I think you need to give a tip of the cap to Lloyd McClendon and [his] staff here -- is that they played the game every time for 27 outs, ... They played with energy. They played hard. There's no question about that. That's a hell of a starting point.

Jim Tracy