He's a big-game pitcher. You can tell he wants to be out there. He's got the stuff to go out and shut down a good team like that.

No. That was pretty bad. There's too many good players over there for that to happen.

There's too many good players over there for that stuff to happen,

Nothing you could say or write about him would be good enough. He's why we're where we are.

That's a good sign. The most important thing is we need our pitchers back in line.

I know. That's how good Joe was. In this environment, it's a big deal, and I've seen a lot of our guys go out there pretty timid at times. But there was nothing timid about Blanton. I thought he had really good stuff tonight, and he just went after guys with it.