Johnson allowed home runs to three consecutive batters for the first time in his major league career and four in all during the fourth inning as the Chicago White Sox beat the New York Yankees 6-2 to stop a seven-game losing streak. Johnson allowed the homers over a 16-pitch span. How do you explain something like that ... It's the one thing that I'll walk away from this game not really understanding.
Quotes about seven-game (15 Quotes)
Three teams in it, two make it and one will miss it. Every game is like a playoff game. It's going to be as big as if it were a seven-game series.
These guys have been through far, far worse. Most of these guys were on the 20-loss team from a couple years ago last year we were on a seven-game losing streak. They've seen it all.
It was just one of those night where we used a lot of energy trying to get to this spot. You know, it is just one game, one game out of a seven-game series. We lost the first one. We'll be ready for the next.
At this time of the year there is no sense of dwelling or feeling bad about what just happened. It's about answering. That's our quest for tonight is having the right answer. If we don't, then we put ourselves in a pretty major hole in a seven-game series. But I have no doubt about the team as far as how they have answered in certain situations. I believe we will get the right one tonight. That's all we are looking to do. You can't get too far ahead. We are looking to win one game.
It'll be helpful to get to know ... can he run the table Can he play a seven-game series Does he play when he's absolutely on the beam or does he press too much to where he's less than the sum of his parts
Patterson has been placed on the inactive list and sent home to Portland for the rest of this (seven-game) road trip for his behavior, both on and off the court,
We lost confidence, focus, and we have a lack of belief in the system right now and a lack of belief in each other. Everyone has been hanging their heads and we've been on a seven-game road trip, but hopefully coming home again Saturday will give them some incentive.
We need to be physical with them early and set ourselves up for later in the series. Every time you get out of position to make a hit, they have the skill to make you pay. You have to wait for them, but in a seven-game series they'll come eventually.
It's still a seven-game series. We're going home. We're going to our home court. We got to go there and win that game.
I felt like that in a seven-game series, that having 11 pitchers is probably going to be an important move to make. To have an extra pitcher on the roster would probably help.
Obviously, we've got four games against them (Angels). We've got to take care of these games first. Macha said yesterday we need a seven-game winning streak.
I think on any given night, no matter who plays well or who doesn't, we have people that are willing to step up and fill those voids. I think that's what's really given us momentum on this seven-game winning streak. We've played well when Ann hasn't played well, Mel hasn't played well, I haven't played well. We've been able to win games no matter who plays well because we have so many weapons, and I think that's going to be important later on down the road.
I think it's a sense of urgency. When we have our backs to the wall and we need to win a game, I think we really focus in. We've got to find a way to have that sense of urgency, whether it's a seven-game winning streak or a seven-game losing streak, every time we step on the floor if we want to make the playoffs this year.
Translation Volume equals a seven-game series. ''Get us to Game 7 and we'll be in the ballpark. The last two Octobers, Fox has been the No. 1 network and we did it on the back of baseball.