Buck Showalter Pitching Quotations

Kenny was pitching well until he got hit by that line drive and he battled his way through five innings.

From a pitching standpoint, I'd like to see him get down there and get back on the horse, see him getting the ball. It's been unlike any year he has ever had in professional baseball. He's had to make a lot of decisions.

He was cruising along and pitching really well. He just made some mistakes with pitches and the hitters hit them.

Justin will be in our bullpen. He's been pitching well and I told him that he's up here because we think he can help us.

We want him to keep pitching well, maybe work on his breaking ball. It just doesn't fit for us right now, but it will again.

It was just not his night. Three out of four nights ... I'm not going to extend him there. He wasn't pitching as good as he's capable of. He's scuffling. There's no sense in him continuing to scuffle if I can help it.

It's always a game of adjustments. We make the mistake of looking at the end of spring with finality. You have to make adjustments. The organization has done a good job of adding depth to our pitching and we're going to attack that.

As a team, you just try to survive them because you hate what it does to your pitching staff a lot of times. Eighteen innings in a day with no off days around it are tough.