We're different. We have a healthy Andy Pettitte, which certainly helps. We also don't have Jeff Kent, Carlos Beltran and a healthy Jeff Bagwell. Now our reputation starts and ends with our pitching, whereas last year it was a little different. People thought of Bagwell and Biggio and an offensive juggernaut.
Quotes about pettitte (16 Quotes)
Pettitte did a great job, the kind I've come to expect of him while facing him so many times in the American League. But so did Derek.
I'm really pleased with the outing Derek gave us. Pettitte was really good. He had outstanding command all day long. I've seen him that way many times and tonight was no different. But Derek pitched just as well.
You've got to win these games. That's what we've been talking about. When your big guys go to the mound, you've got to win them. We just didn't put enough runs on the board today. Pettitte certainly pitched good enough.
Last year, we were probably an Andy Pettitte short of going to the World Series.
It's just an honor to make my debut against a team like this. Facing off against a guy like Andy Pettitte is going to be amazing. I'm really looking forward to it.
If we had had Pettitte last year, we might have won the World Series. He's that important. He's that valuable. To have him healthy this year, even though we kind of subtracted some pieces offensively, I think the addition of Pettitte cancels those out.
I've been in Houston for 20 years, most of my adult life. I've never seen the city this excited about baseball. I think the signings of Andy Pettitte and Roger Clemens have left the city somewhat in shock. There's this 'I-can't-believe-this-is-really-happening' feeling.
He's a second-time 20-game winner and you don't hear much about it. Roy himself is not a self-promoter. He's very laid-back. He's very comfortable being in the back room. You have great personalities like the Rocket (Roger Clemens) and (Andy) Pettitte, who have done some wonderful things, so I think (the attention) naturally gravitates in their direction. But Roy has done a fine job for us and he's going to go down as one of the great pitchers in this decade.
I didnt see where it hit (Pettitte). Hopefully his foot isnt too bad where hell miss a start. Id hate to see that for any competitor.
He played against Colorado starter Jeff Francis last night, and he's got pretty good numbers off of Rodriguez, so we'll see where we are against Pettitte.
I knew we weren't a 15-under-.500 team. When the season started, I thought we were probably five games over .500. Then, if we got a little bit lucky, I thought we could be 10 games over. I think we're fortunate to be 14 over .500 because we didn't figure on Andy Pettitte (17-9, 2.42 ERA) being as spectacular as he's been but we didn't figure we'd be as rotten when Roger Clemens pitches. Go figure.
In some ways, Ann has always been looked upon as the Andy Pettitte of women's basketball. Everybody else was always the star, but when you really needed something she always gave it to you. And people just take it for granted. That's just Ann. What's she great at Nothing. But she's really good in every area.
They have a couple of high-profile veterans Pettitte and Clemens who have had a ton of success. There's probably enough attention to go around. If he was the only guy there pitching he would get more attention, but he gets enough. People know how great he is.
The game was played out as advertised. (Andy) Pettitte pitched well, Webb pitched well. One or two hits our way instead of their way and you have yourself a victory.
We are a different club and we are probably not as offensively as potent as we were last year. We certainly don't have the possibility to break a game open with the long balls like we did last year. We're a little bit younger in our offense, but somehow we found a way. Our pitching is more solid than it was last year from top to bottom. Our bullpen has been good on the balance of the year and having Andy Pettitte healthy has helped our rotation quite a bit. We are probably a little stronger in the pitching department and probably a little weaker in the offense department.