Terry Francona Quotes on Games (4 Quotes)

With him in the bullpen, the stability was really, really good. Even the games Schill had a tough time, we didn't have to use Mike Timlin so often at a time when Foulke went down. We might have run into some problems, but we didn't. It was really good for us. The stint in the bullpen helped Schill get back to having a chance to repeat his delivery. It worked out well for everybody. At the time, he just wasn't ready to be a starter. We tried to time it to when Foulke came back. We had to get him seven starts. Just three wouldn't be fair. But we said all along we wanted to get him back in the rotation.

It's hard to win doubleheaders. The idea is to make this into our advantage somehow. Because of the importance of these games, we're going to probably have a lot of guys play 18 innings. Maybe it'll be 20, maybe 22. Who knows Whatever we're asked to do, we'll try to make it to our advantage.

I don't doubt he'll miss a few games, ... but that's a heck of a lot better than the rest of the year.

He's interesting. He's a switch-hitter, he can move a little bit. Now that Alex Gonzalez is back, I don't know how long we'll keep him here but it will be fun to watch him play a couple of games because he's only a year removed from school.