I love Rhymes: Raph Rhymes on being in the loser’s bracket: “It’s win or go home. This is when it gets fun. We have to play as a team. No one said it would be easy. I’m looking forward to it.”
Nola: “I didn’t have my fast ball command like I usually do." Mainieri on Nola: "When you give a guy a rest, you’re concerned about fast ball command in the first game back. I thought his command was off slightly today....The problem was that it took a few more pitches than normal to get guys out.... He had a 20 pitch first inning and it was a shutout inning and the difference in the game was me not being able to go the eighth inning with him and they stayed with their guy for that inning. ... I thought Aaron pitched his heart out. ... I thought Aaron was phenomenal... I thought Nola was fantastic." Mainieri on Stanek: "You have to tip your hat to Stanek. He’s really good. He’s about ready for the big leagues. He was throwing a lot of off speed pitches when he was behind in counts. That really surprised us. We thought he would challenge us a little bit more. He was the story of the game." Rhymes: “Stanek pitched a great game. We were expecting that. He’s been great all year. He made clutch pitches throughout the game. He got quick outs and we couldn’t pull through.” Joe Serrano: "We came through. We got Stanek the win. He pitched his heart out there.” Tyler Spoon: “We knew with Nola on the mound, we weren’t going to get many great opportunities. ... It was a great job by Joe (Serrano) when he executed the hit and run (by hitting a double) and Jean (Ramirez) scored from first. That was awesome." Dave Van Horn: "I’m proud of our guys battling at the plate against Nola.” On Ryne Stanek’s performance: "I think if you take out the fourth inning where he walked three in a row and threw 20 extra pitches, I thought he had one of his better outings of the year. He’s strong as an ox.”
Any update? d1baseball.com must have forgot to pay the bills this month, because their site looks to be down indefinitely.
