What are you going to do when a guy throws a ball up around your head ... Tony said we hit Edgar Renteria in the first inning and he was hitting .500 and I said, 'No way in heck were we trying to hit Renteria to load the bases up with a 1-0 lead, especially with Tino Martinez coming up.' That didn't make any sense to me.
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