Jim Tracy Five Quotations

I would certainly hope so. At the major-league level, there has to be a lot of nights where five runs are plenty to win.

I give the club a lot of credit. It hasn't been the easiest thing in the world for this club in our first five games.

Giving up four or five runs through five innings with your starter ... that's a lot of runs to give up and expect to win.

(Playing the Dodgers) is kind of special. It was five years that I spent there. In my opinion they were five very special years. There were a lot of very special things we accomplished there. There were things that some people thought we were never going to have a chance to do, but we did.

We have the better part of five months of baseball to play.

Those first five or six innings, you cannot make mistakes like that on this level and succeed. There's no way. You can't have it.

We've played five games and we've had chances to win all five. I'm proud of the club. We did everything we could to get back in it tonight.

He threw way too many pitches last night, with 100-plus still trying to get through five innings, ... But he's getting plenty of seasoning this year. He has exceeded expectations for a Rule 5 Draft pick. Is he a stone-cold lock to make the starting rotation in 2006? No. Is he a candidate? Sure he is.

The last five or six games, I've been doing some things that go against the norm of what I usually do,