When you come down the stretch like we are, ... good teams hit the ball.

We got what, 11 hits tonight? Did we hit some balls good, yeah. But we're still not raking the ball.

I told him to hit one out, ... I told him to relax, make sure you stay on the ball and track it. He went up there with that idea.

He got off to a real good start and hit a bad spell where he was fatigued. Once he got through that, he's been pretty good.

He?s going to leave the park if he swings at good balls. He just hit through that pitch. It was already up (in the zone) and he popped it out of the yard.

No, I didn't realize that he hadn't hit a home run. But he picked a good time to hit one.