51 Quotes by Ernie Whitt

I thought our pitchers threw the ball a little bit better today, which is always encouraging. So, yeah again, this is just a build-up.

I think tonight was a little bit of a wake-up call for us.

I was very happy with the way the guys played. We played errorless ball, which was good. We threw too many pitches and fell behind in the count. When you fall behind the count on good hitters, you're going to get hit and that's what happened today.

We're all left-handed. There's nothing we can do about it and that's all we have. It is what is.

We have to win two games to advance. We think that Erik Bedard matches up better against Japan in the second round.

We had our fate in our own hands and we didn't come through with it. You have to give credit to Mexico; they came out and beat us.

We had our chances, we had our fate in our own hands and didn't come through with it. Anything can happen, you look at the odds and they are probably worse than us yesterday beating the U.S. but then that's why we play the game.

We had our best pitchers throwing against South Africa, our best lineup going. You know, sometimes games just happen. That's why you play the game. There's no question that we were on pins and needles.

We can be happy right now but we still have a task at hand.