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What they're saying from the clubhouse

Eric Hinske on his performance:
“Any time I get in there I just try to help the team win. All I can control is what I do on the field, so I just prepare like I’m going to play every day and hope for the best.”

Hinske on Curt Schilling:
“That was vintage Curt. He had all his pitches working today. He got ahead in the count and threw all his breaking stuff for strikes. It was a good win for us and he gave us a good performance.”

Jason Varitek on Schilling:
“He basically utilized all five of his pitches. . . It’s important for all of our starters [to pitch deep]. He’s had two huge quality starts in a row and both of them we needed very much.”

Varitek on Ortiz:
“David is starting to feel a little better. It’s good and it was another big day for the big man.”

Schilling on Schilling:
"I absolutely thought I was going to finish that game right up through the seventh inning. Having that long seventh probably took more out of me than it should. No extra day, if we had an extra day I would have loved to have gone back out there, but then a 5-0 game becomes an 8-0 game and ends up being probably the best decision for everybody involved.
"At the end of the day, going back out for the ninth would have been me trying to get a shutout as opposed to me trying to make 33 or 34 starts and be as healthy as I can for every one."

Francona on offense heating up:
"I never say that. If I say that, we'll come out tomorrow and not do anything. It's early and with the weather like this, I don't think you'll ever see a team in it's stride, any team, until it warms up. There's just too many inconsistencies, but for right now at least we are having good at-bats for the most part."

Francona on Schilling:

"Good pitchers smell wins and Schill has been like that for a long time. That's why you have guys like that on the ballclub. They know how to win games. Sometimes with real good stuff, sometimes with not real good stuff, sometimes in between. He certainly knows how to make adjustments."

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