488 Quotes by Jim Tracy

I thought Ryan caught a good game. He certainly will go back out there.

I purposely ... started him, just to see how he'd respond, ... And he hit the ball long and foul, but the point is, you've got to protect the runner.

You can nitpick all you want, but one run isn't going to get it done. We played hard. There was no lack of effort. We needed a timely hit. We weren't able to get it done.

One of the toughest things in the world to try to stave off is when you walk somebody, especially the leadoff man in the bottom of the ninth, and that's exactly what happened. It's tough. It's unfortunate. More times than not, it's going to come back to haunt you, and it did.

I think it's very safe to say that Ryan is not a finished product defensively. I also feel that, when you look at a major-league baseball team that has 25 active members and half of that is your pitching staff, it's pretty imperative that that stuff back there behind the plate gets taken care of.

In the second inning, his breaking ball for a strike early in the count was a lot better than it was in the first inning.

There wasn't any point in this series where he had to overdo it with our bullpen. You couldn't ask for a better situation going into Colorado.

One-and-7 obviously isn't the way you want to start. But the (Dodgers) team I managed last year started 12-2 and we won 71 games. So it's not a large enough sample size of games. It doesn't mean this is the kind of team we're going to be for the next six months.

We've had a few like this. The record may suggest differently, but when you look at the games we've played, we've had our fair share of games like this.