Cooper:
“He’s been struggling to get that first win. Hopefully, now, we can roll off a few for him.”
Oswalt:
“I really don’t know what I’m doing right now. I went from a fastball-curveball pitcher to a fastball-slider pitcher all of a sudden. I’ll try and figure it out.”
Pudge:
“Finally, we gave him some runs to work with. We need to score runs for him. If we do that, we’ll be okay.”
Tejada:
“We have to pick up the slack. One thing we know is we have a great hitting team. I know we’re going to hit. There are going to be a lot of games like this coming.”
Padres' pitcher Josh Geer, in one of the most illogical quotes you'll ever read:
“I don’t know what it was, but it was definitely my command. I was all over the place."
Jody Gerut:
“We just have to be better. We've hit a lot of hard balls for outs with runners in scoring position, but we have to start making our own luck. I suppose you do that by looking at your own prep work and asking yourself if you're doing everything to get yourself ready for each game. And if you need to do extra work, are you doing it? If the answers to those questions are yes, then it's just a matter of time before we regain the form we had. I still don't concede that this is our team. It isn't.”
We didn't come out here to play tiddlywinks, son.
-Hal Smith
