Mark Haley Quotes (12 Quotes)

Just one or two pitches, and then things got out of hand. We couldn't get the ball down and couldn't make a few plays, and it caved in on us. It was all of a sudden, boom. It was a great 2-1 ball game, and then ... you've got to make pitches. And the bullpen has been a bright spot for us this season. They've been strong for us. They gave it up tonight, but they've been consistent.

Give that kid credit, he stayed down and changed speeds a lot. We hit a lot of balls off the end of the bat.

Jackson has overcome a lot of adversity, and had struggled with his ERA this season. To win this championship we needed someone to step up like he did. He should be the most valuable player of this series.

We let him off the hook. He didn't have good command of the strike zone, and we needed to be more disciplined. We chased a lot of balls out of the strike zone.

I wanted five good innings. Kellen Raab was going to be ready if we needed him. But Jackson just kept going and going.

I feel confident. All season we've gone day-to-day, you forget about yesterday. Now there's no tomorrow. These guys battle all the way, you saw that in the last inning tonight.

We couldn't make the adjustment.

This was a nice one for us to get today. I'm really happy for Manuel. He battled and battled to get the count to 2-0. He then got a fast ball and was able to take it the other way, which is exactly what you're supposed to do in that situation.

If you had told me that Alberto Gonzalez would make two errors in the first inning, I'd have bet my mortgage against it.

They did what they had to do to stay alive in this series, but you know the attitude of our kids. They'll be out there battling (tonight).

We don't have a lot of secrets left, so everybody's got to step up. I think we have enough weapons that they can't key on one kid to shut us down. It's pretty much my best athletes against your best athletes.

I told him no way. I'm a baseball guy.