Adam Kennedy Quotes (66 Quotes)

The bullpen ... everyone on our staff ... we have so much confidence in them. We feel good about whoever is on the hill.

They are just really dominating us at the plate. I mean, it's half them and half us. They're pretty much cruising through the games. In a playoff situation, when a manager keeps letting a guy go out there in the ninth inning, it's pretty much a sign of 'We're dominating you.' And they've been doing that.

Homers are nice, especially with men on base. But we don't sit around waiting for them.

Mike can come down here and get things done.

If guys get in a slump, they go buy a more expensive bat, thinking they're going to do better. Some guys constantly rotate bats.

It's frustrating to not be able to put a roll together, ... really frustrating.

Nobody wants to go home. We think the focus, and the energy of the crowd, doesn't make the travel issue an issue.

I think we all feel pretty confident in the guys who are going, and we've all grown pretty used to playing with them.

We didn't play very well. We played well in a couple, but not so well otherwise. Our offense just didn't really get going.

A lot of new bats have a handle that bends on impact. I don't really like that. They don't seem to have as much pop.

To be able to walk into the same clubhouse every day for six years and know exactly what to expect for six years, that's really rare in this business. It's amazing when one player stays in one place. But to have all these players and coaching staff together That makes a difference.

Oh, man. This is tremendous. We worked hard the last few years to bring it all together, and we finally got it done.

Two outs, no outs, whatever it takes that has been the key to our wins over the past two nights,

It's not surprising. There's a history of guys like that running into a game where they figure it out. It was pretty impressive.

To not let things get out of hand against a good offense is as big as us scoring some late runs.

This one, ... definitely has a little more talent.

I wouldn't say I'm surprised. You just deal with it.

Bonds and Vladdy (Guerrero) The rest of us would have to remember to hit, because we might get caught up watching the show.

You're going to have your 0-for-4 days, but you don't want to have days on defense when you're going to cost the pitcher a run or two, so you have to stay sharp on defense.

It has to be that way. We've done it before, when you go through a streak and rely on one guy and the offense doesn't work that way.

Despite their record, they make it tough on you. Everybody in this league comes to play, especially now. They understand the stakes for us, so they're not laying down.

We're two guys who like to cover some ground. I just look at it as a good thing. It's going to be tough to get the ball through the right side. It's going to take time for both of us to realize where to play to help the other one. I can play more up the middle to give him more room. But it's going to take a little time to figure it out.

They seem to be playing pretty good, so everyone in the American League has their work cut out for them. It doesn't really matter that we got to their bullpen. I mean, what's the difference Freddy didn't have his great stuff tonight and he still battled through six innings.

I had seen a good number of pitches in my previous at-bat, so I had a little bit of a gauge on how his fastball was working. I just wanted to put a good swing on it and not try to do too much, and I was fortunate enough to find a hole.

There'd be an awful lot of guys on base, that's for sure. The guy hitting behind those two would have 300 RBI opportunities in one season.

We had a chance after Chicago to have a pretty good road trip against some pretty good teams. At a big time of the year, we pretty much blew that here.

It is a little early to speculate or for this to be an issue. You don't have the 3-4 at-bats that you normally would so if I get up, I'll just try and be aggressive. That works for me anyway.

There is no doubt about it. It is a big situation, a big game, a fun game. It is fun to play defense like that and make big plays for your pitcher.

Everything is true, from what he's done in the Minors to what we saw in Spring Training. When you have that bat that can help your team, there has to be an upside to bringing him up.

We've seen him have a lot of life on his ball before, with that tough cutter. He didn't have it today. ... He still battled, but he did not have a lot on the ball.

Both. I mean, giving up five runs, it's not necessarily the end of the world. You feel like, as a team, as an offense, you're not pulling your weight. It's a little frustrating.

They all had it going. They put on a display. They really put on a display.

Two days ago, we had just lost four straight and were tied with Oakland. Now we're back to a two-game lead. But as much as you pay attention to what they're doing, you can't really worry about that.

In the playoffs, you're going to see good pitching so it's going to take everybody. But having Garret swing the bat like that will be big for us.

If we can continue to keep playing better like we did the last half of the trip, I think we can look at our record and say we'll be OK. We got something out of it we got on a roll. We started to pick things up a little bit. If we can continue to play well, that 5-5 trip was worth it.

Offensively, you can argue there are some teams out there that are a little bit more well-balanced than us, especially with the power.

They have great pitching, ... but we just stink at the plate. If we keep it up, (today) is the last day.

That 2002 team, we played perfect baseball for a long time at the end, and it took that to win. This team, we have a couple superstars. Now we have a handful of guys at the top of our league in what they do.

I was just trying to stay aggressive and try not to fall behind in the count.

They took it to us pretty good. Whatever the controversy, they took advantage of it. They took advantage of everything they got.

We had a chance to get to him tonight, but it seems like he has an ability to step it up when he gets in trouble, and he did that tonight. There aren't many times when you're going to be able to hold that lineup to two runs that late in the game, so it was frustrating because we weren't able to get it done.

This was an all-White Sox series.

Hopefully they'll run out of dirt to dig up. I don't know if anything positive will come out of it anyway.

We expect a pretty good battle.

It was not very well played by us. It is tough to expect a win when we don't play very well.

Despite what his numbers were going into today, it's not really a surprise, him being able to throw a quality game like today.

It's tough to ... stand up there and try to be patient when you get behind against a guy with that kind of stuff. The history of guys like that is they have games where they figure it all out.

Claxton's a community that works well together. They pull together, especially in tough times. They celebrate, if there's something to celebrate, the community comes together to celebrate. If we go through a tough time, the community comes together and supports each other.

I can only play well and continue to try and help the team and that will speak for itself. Whatever happens, so be it and make the decision tough. I'm not trying to think about it as him versus me, but both of us working together. I think that is the way to look at it.

It's very comforting to look in today's starters and see his name.