Reed Johnson Quotes (12 Quotes)

I mean, he came out of the game. What's up with that There's a certain way to do things. Suck it up. Take the pain. Anyone can get hit. It's staying in there that's the challenge to the whole thing. I'll have to have a word with him.

Approach-wise, we did a little bit better as far as making him throw strikes. He's effective because he puts the ball on the corner or right off the corner. We had a better plan today as far as trying to get some better pitches to hit.

I think the thing that helps is the ocean swells. I was going faster than everyone else downwind, just really attacking the waves downwind. I'm not used to waves like that.

I didn't know it was a record, I was just trying to go up there and get a hit every time.

You'd see a lot of teams roll over in that situation. We continued to take it one at-bat at a time and it nearly added up.

I was kind of working through the ball and trying to catch it, and all of a sudden I'm lying on the ground. I still got a piece of it, but not enough, ... At the time, they were two pretty big runs. At the time, it's like the whole stadium's watching you. You have that feeling -- you're thinking that might have been the game.

I know I can play every day in this league. As far as the (Jays') moves, I didn't even think, 'Gee I'm glad they didn't make any outfield moves. We got a couple of pitchers we needed. We needed a closer and we got that. We needed a power bat and we got that. Wow

There is a different feel. We definitely need the fans' help. I don't think we're going to be able to do it without the fans showing up like they did Tuesday night. That was great. It's easy to play in a game like that. The fans make it really easy for you to get that adrenaline level up, and that was definitely key for us on Tuesday.

Those late runs are always huge. We only had a 2-1 lead at the time, and we were able to stretch it out to 6-2. That's huge, and it takes a lot of pressure off our bullpen. We haven't been able to do a lot of that lately for our pitchers.

There's a way to use it the right way and then you've got a lot of people who abuse the revenue-sharing by not putting it back into their team. That's a concern now.

I think you'd see a lot of teams roll over in that situation. We continued to take it one at-bat at a time and it nearly added up in the end.

I thought I probably should have won. I made some stupid mistakes.