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April 10, 2007
From Terry Francona . . .
-- ''Very, very impressed [by Josh Beckett]. I thought he pitched a good ballgame from start to finish and it's obviously nice to get runs, but I thought he stayed with his game plan, didn't waver from that, didn't let the score waiver his concentration at all. He did very well, he could have stayed out there. Just wanted to give [Mike] Timlin an inning and try to get [Brendan] Donnelly a full inning. We have not been real effective with that yet, but we'll get there.''
-- [On the layoff hurting the Mariners] ''I don't think it helped. Again, they were put in a tough situation over the last four days. But they have a pretty good guy [Felix Hernandez] throwing tomorrow. We'll have our hands full.''
-- [On the offense breaking out] ''It's a nice way to play the game. When you score first and then add on, that's a good recipe for winning. They looked . . . I understand they've been stuck for a couple of days. We had an advantage today and we took advantage of it. Hopefully we can do it for a couple of more days.''
-- [On Jason Varitek] ''Last week on the road trip, he could have come off that road trip with four home runs and nobody will ever remember that. He cut balls in Kansas City more than in Texas. We kind of keep track of that because when a guy looks up and sees his batting average low but is hitting some balls right on the nose in the wind or with cold weather, that's about all we can ask of him, so I think he has felt pretty good about himself. But hits help. When you look up and see your batting average rising, runs batted in on the scoreboard, that certainly helps.''
-- [More on Beckett] ''There were even some changeups today, one was 84, I mean there were some that were 87, 88, 89, but if he stays down with it, and if it's off of his fastball, it's still going to help, and if it's used in the right situation. And then he got that breakinbg ball that's changing planes, which is pretty effective. I mean if he's throwing a changeup down and fastball down in the same area, anything off of that fastball, because he's got some movement on his fastball, is going to be helpful.''
Posted by Art Martone 
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