That?s the safest way to go. We don?t want to lose him. He?s too important.

I don?t think I ever remotely (doubted).

That's why we took Trot and Manny out. If you're gonna lose, rather than have them chase balls down all afternoon, try to come out [Sunday] and give a good effort and salvage something out of the series.

The one thing that I'm really excited about is when he hits the ball, he runs like his pants are on fire. I love that. Our team is not very fast. ... But when [Crisp] comes out of the box, they better get it in or he's going to go to second. That's an aspect that we haven't had a lot. That will be fun to watch. You can already tell by the way he plays the game. He's going to do it every time. It's part of his game.

Jason was sitting next to me and we had that exact conversation about a week ago. We'd even gone to the rulebook.

I talked to Johnny and talked to [team medical director] Dr. [Thomas] Gill just now, and Dr. Gill said he's already improving, which is real good news. I don't doubt this will be a few games, but that's a heck of a lot better than the rest of the year.