Mike Scioscia Early Quotations

He's a good defensive third baseman, and he's quick and he's got good range. Early on this spring, he wasn't moving his feet like he can, but you can see today what type of third baseman he can be.

He was a little erratic early with his cutter. He got in some hitter's counts but he came back to get some big outs.

He came out and got in a zone early and got in a nice groove. We just couldn't pressure him enough early on to make a difference.

John did something that he hasn't done since last year. He would bend but not break. He was good in the early going but it got away from him.

Walking around town, I had people coming up to me just thanking me for their grandparents who were deceased that were Angel fans back in the early 1960s.

We're going to have to do a better job on offense, getting guys on base early and doing some of the things we want to do,

Against Detroit, I don't know if he was a little psyched up and he was maybe overthrowing a little bit. Tonight, he was much more in tune early in the game and his pitches were very, very crisp.

Domination is not even a word that's in anybody's vocabulary. This game with its twists and turns could have gone either way for the whole nine innings, but fortunately we got an early lead and held on.

Hopefully he's gonna be able to get out here early next week and test it some more, ... and hopefully get him in the rotation next weekend.

It's too early to really know how to pitch him, and I think you saw that with our pitchers.

He came in and got in the zone early and got in a groove. He made some pitches when he had to. I think we made him work for it. He found his release point. He's got great stuff.