"It's fastball, strike one. Curveball, strike two. Then they're on the defense. You can't let that happen," said Leyland, whose team struck out eight times Tuesday, after posting 11 Ks on Monday.

"You can't take a fastball down the middle and a breaking ball down the middle and expect to hit big-league pitching. It's just not going to happen. I don't care who you are."

-- From Jason Beck's blog (but reported by Alden Gonzalez)