Juan Pierre Quotes

I was hoping he`d make a mistake.

It was good to create a little havoc on the bases.

They`ve been picking me up all year. So it`s good for me to help those guys out a bit.

It was nice to pick up the offense. They`ve been picking me up all season long.

We`re all right -- but nobody likes to get their butts kicked. Who`s to say we can`t go on a tear? Definitely, we miss (Lee). No sense talking about it every day. He`s not coming back until after the All-Star break.

He throws a lot of strikes. And the pitches we did get to hit, we didn`t do anything with them.

It`s amazing ? it looks like he`s just playing catch with the mitt, even with the movement on his pitches. The other day, St. Louis has a good hitting lineup, and they were missing balls by a foot. You want the definition of pitching, it`s him. You wonder how he gets it done.

Every one of those throws would have been close. They just weren`t accurate. He has a good, quick move.

I haven`t been getting on base as much as I`d like to be. This shows that speed can play a part. You don`t expect three bad pickoff throws. You see something new in baseball every day.

For us, every night is a heavyweight bout. You see guys concentrating more, getting more excited, getting more upset. We`ve got no room for error anymore.