Mariners 2, Athletics 0 Felix Hernandez allowed four hits and a walk in seven shutout innings for visiting Seattle, which left the A's 1 12 games behind in the wild-card race. Hernandez, 19, outdueled Joe Blanton and didn't complain when he was pulled. Felix, if he had a mouth full of nickels, he wouldn't give you change for a quarter, ... He doesn't speak much.
Quotes about shutout (16 Quotes)
I went 85 games without a shutout and now I've got four in a row, ... I'm just trying to enjoy it. The attention is nice, but the fact that we're winning games is really nice, too.
Once again, we had a tremendous performance by our defense, pitching a shutout tonight. Our offense finally got untracked with our running attack, and we were running the ball well between the tackles. Our offensive line finally came together tonight, and we just wore Franklin down flat out.
After a journeyman pitcher with that name threw a shutout Allen S. Sothoron pitched his initials off yesterday.
Both goalies were on the top of their game, but Gerber had the shutout against Canada fresh in his head.
A guy like Adam, you want to get him the shutout and you feel bad for him when they score late on him like that. He deserves it. He stops everything for us.
It's a big win, regardless of the shutout. We needed to get back on track. We had a great power play and penalty kill, two things that cost us at the Garden. We're paying attention defensively.
We wanted to grind it out. I wanted to throw the ball more, but when you are ahead by three touchdowns you don't want to do that too much. What I was really impressed with was to give our seniors a break on defense, we had a couple of sophomores come in and the beat went on. One (touchdown) squirted out the back door but as far as I am concerned we pitched a shutout. It was pretty good.
Cam Ellsworth absolutely earned the shutout. He played really well, and I couldn't be happier for him. He has to gain confidence from this and the players should be confident in him. I know they like him because he's a very hard worker.
Any time you go out there and you've got a shutout going, of course you want to finish it. It was the right move. I still have seven starts left and I want to be ready in five days. ... It's a tough situation for him, but he made the right choice.
Adam hardly gets to play and all he did was hit a home run and catch a shutout. He realizes he's not going to get to play much, but he prepares well. You've got to admire him for his stick-to-it.
Now we're really seeing even the byproduct of the style that he's comfortable with and the confidence that comes from winning, ... We're achieving the success as a team that comes from 23 guys paying attention to team defense. We're not taking anything from what Brian has remarkably been able to accomplish, because it's extraordinarily hard to get a shutout, period, let alone to think of four in a row. But it really is an entire roster sacrificing anything and everything needed to get in front of pucks or deflect pucks or controlling positions defensively to be aware of taking away scoring opportunities.
We saw him throw in September. We saw him throw a three-hit shutout on Sept. 29. He looked healthy, said he was healthy. That's just part of baseball, unfortunately.
It was a relief more than anything, because we won't have to talk about it anymore. The kids were all thrilled and excited just to get the win. The shutout was icing on the cake.
I was glad we took care of business but there are several things we need to improve on. But you can't be too upset about a shutout.
The game was pretty well played defensively by both teams. It's a great feeling to get the shutout, but it's more important to get the win.