Terry Francona Quotes (156 Quotes)

His fastball has been getting hit. When he's gone to his off-speed pitches, he's been real successful. But he can't sneak that fastball by right now. He's just not locating it good enough and he's been getting hit around a little bit. It won't happen all year.

It looked like at a certain point in the game, he started hitting all his spots. And add to that, when you get a lefty in our ballpark on a day like (Sunday), where there is so much contrast with the brightness, it gets tough.

David was hitting everything. I can understand it. I'm sure they weren't real thrilled about it.

Even if he can't play the news is good. He's going to be OK, ... We just have to let it settle down.

It's not like we can live it up and pound our chest. We've got to come back and beat maybe the best pitcher in the league.

That's why we took Trot and Manny out. If you're gonna lose, rather than have them chase balls down all afternoon, try to come out Sunday and give a good effort and salvage something out of the series.