Dusty Baker Quotes on Running (9 Quotes)

You'd think he's left-handed when you watch him throw. He's one of the best athletes I've been around. People are surprised when they see him run. This guy can fly.

The things I want to see out of him is baseball experience and work on fundamental instinctive stuff -- running the bases, hitting the cutoff man, knowing when to run. I've heard that when he gets thrown out, he stops running. When you get thrown out, you need to be more daring.

I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes.

The guy's a stolen-base man. We had him one time on that pitch out in the third and didn't execute properly. We know he's going to run. We just don't know when he's going to run.

I thought Jerome threw the ball well he threw the ball excellent. He really should've only given up one run, on the triple. He gave us what we needed. Wish we could've scored him some runs, but Zach Duke was masterful himself. We had some opportunities.

We had Roger in trouble a couple of times, but we managed only one run. Roger knows how to pitch, and he knows how to win.

Running is the hard part. It's getting close to having to make a decision.

It got a little hairy there when we had a 3-0 lead and Delgado hit that home run. But that was the only mistake Zambrano made.

Juan has a pretty good idea of when to run. There were quite a few guys who had green lights last year. It's just a matter of them running. I gave guys the green light a lot, but sometimes I was a bit upset when they didn't run. A real base stealer can run better when he feels he can run versus when you tell him to run.