“Spring Training doesn't go on the back of your baseball card, but this is one of my plans for the year ... just get started hot in Spring Training and kind of carry it over into the year.”
“I rushed it a little bit. I couldn't get a good grip on it. It was a bang-bang play, a 50-50 shot. We had talked about it right before that if it was a ball to me, I was going home no matter what. If he was staying I wasn't going to turn two. I knew I was going home the whole way, I just couldn't get it quick enough.”
“I probably would have got him out with a good throw on a bang-bang play, but I couldn't get a good grip on it. It's one play, and I'm not really going to let it get to me.”
“I knew I was going home the whole way, [I] just couldn't get it out of my glove quick enough. I probably would have had him out with a good throw. It would have been a bang-bang play, but it just got stuck a little bit.”
“I should have caught it. It was one of those plays where I knew it was going to take me off and I knew it was going to be a tag play, and I just got crossed up a little bit and kind of rushed it.”
“I've still got a ways to go, but it's a learning experience. You're going to be put into situations you've never been put in before and you learn from them.”
