Bruce Bochy Quotes (218 Quotes)

I thought he threw the ball well. We just ran into a well-pitched game.

Bochy declined comment when asked if Johnson could snatch more starts from Klesko. He (Johnson) deserves playing time, ... He's playing some great baseball right now. You want somebody to force your hand. You always say it's a nice problem when you have a lot of guys you can play out there.

When you first come up, you don't know what you're getting into. He thought he took too many pitches. This time, he's getting his swings. That doesn't mean he's out of control, just that he's being aggressive.

If we have to make adjustments, we'll do it from St. Louis.

Obviously he's not locked in at the plate. He's a guy that's come through many times for us. (Third base) is the last place you want to hit that ball.

This is a good lineup, and it's going to score some runs. I don't know who would have scored runs tonight (off Webb). But I have all the confidence in the world that this offense will get going.

He was playing terrific baseball. He was playing great defense and he was one of our hot bats. This is a big blow for us. He's a guy we're going to miss.

The biggest thing is to have a swagger when you take the field. When you're not going well, you have to change something -- the biggest thing is the way you carry yourself. You have to walk like you belong with the best, go up to the plate like you know you belong with the best. That's swagger.

The pitching staff has a sense of comfort with him. He has stepped in and done a great job. He has helped stabilize this team behind the plate, and given us some offense, too.

He's been consistent and it looks like he's gotten in the groove. He's helped solidify this rotation, and I can't say enough about the job he's done since we acquired him.

If we think it's in his best interest to skip a start, then we'll do it,

You don't like being 3-7. But we have too much baseball left to dwell on it or be concerned about it.

This has gone on quite a while now. It's probably the longest one I've seen a club go through. Hopefully, when we come out of it, we'll come out if it for a long time, too.

It's hard to throw much better than that, ... He made it look easy. He had great command, good sinking action and was getting ground balls. He made adjustments, and it looks like he took it out there.

He's been there every time. He wanted it, so I let him have it.

took for granted that the ball went out and he tossed it into the stands. He thought it was out. That's why he did what he did.

It's not really a time to start picking at the corners. We're down four at that point. You've pretty much got to challenge them, and we lost the challenge.

After a game like last night and with the way we've gone through the 'pen, we needed somebody to go deep in the ballgame.

We needed someone to do what (Park) did. Really, I thought Chan Ho Park bowed his neck and made some great pitches.

When you pick up somebody like this in a desperate time and have him come through the way he has, I don't think anybody could've expected it.

I wouldn't even want to think about where we'd be without him. And I don't want to ever think about what it'd be like in the future without him.

Honestly, that wasn't a very good outing. His velocity was fine, but he had trouble getting the ball down. His stuff was good, and that's encouraging, but he made way too many mistakes.

He looks like he's going to miss a couple days. He's the one guy we can't lose on this ballclub. That would be a tremendous blow if we had him go down.

Anything that could go wrong for him has gone wrong.

I think he's still feeling the effects from the broken toe. I don't think he's fully recovered he's trying to find his swing right now. That's why I want to give him a couple of days off to clear his mind.

We have a lot of depth in our pitching, a lot of interesting possibilities. I can't wait to see how it all shakes out.

Johnson, he crushed that ball, ... and it was huge at that point, because it gave us a comfort zone.

This upset a lot of our players. And I don't blame them.

We had trouble executing the whole series. We have to bounce back.

Brian never had any arm trouble. He made every start the whole time he was here. I don't remember him having any soreness.

Any runs you give up hurt you, but we got the ball we're looking for at first base and couldn't get them out at home. Pedro threw great. Give him credit.

There's going to be a little more sense of comfort with him now. He knows this club, he knows the city, so it's nice to have him on the bench. He gives us depth and insurance in case something happens.

I hope that gets worked out with Trevor. I can't say enough about what he's done for the San Diego Padres , the community, myself. He's been my closer since I've been managing.

We're not content with how it ended last year. The brand of ball we played, we'd like to improve on that. We've got a lot of work to do and things to cover this spring.

We're disappointed that we haven't been more consistent on the field.

I've never had a team in (a funk) like this for this long. It's gone on quite a while, the longest I've seen a club go through. The only thing you can hope is when we come out of it, it's for equally as long.

Ash is one of my all-time favorite ballplayers.

Because he thought the play was dead and he was throwing the ball out. I don't know why. We were as surprised as anybody.

The Padres won the fourth division title in their 37-year history on Wednesday night, beating the San Francisco Giants 9-1 to return to the post-season for the first time since being swept by the New York Yankees in the 1998 World Series. There's not a greater feeling, ... This team's been pushed. These guys responded. It's been a bumpy road, but I couldn't be prouder of these guys.

We're going to see how he does in games before we make any decisions.

We're going to approach him like we always have, as if he's been playing all season. This guy's one of the greatest hitters of all time. You want to make quality pitches and not make mistakes.

Those are things we discuss on a daily basis. I'd be lying if I said there was not some concern.

We know how dangerous he is. And we don't want to make a mistake and find out.

That's a very good ball club over there. And to split a series with them - and we had a chance to take three out of four - is a boost for our club.

He's as good as anybody. We aren't the first team he has shut out this year.

I thought Woody, overall, pitched fairly well. He's gotten the ball up a couple times, but tonight he was better. He had some tough luck that first inning.

He's shown the Padres 80 times what he can do. You don't get too close to the stove without getting burned.

The need here is to get some help there behind the plate, ... Nevin did a nice job last night but he hasn't caught in quite a few years, so we need to get some insurance there.

Castilla is a guy who can help us on both sides of the ball. He'll give us some power and production, and he's an outstanding defensive player.

For him to be swinging the way he is with the long layoff, ... it's a credit to how hard he worked in rehab. He's one of those guys with a simple swing. It doesn't take long to get it going.