FREDI GONZALEZ
On seventh inning bloop hits:
“That was the same inning as the other night. You got two bloop hits and a broken bat comebacker that Avi might have been able to get that ball and maybe get a 1-2-3 double play and get out of the inning but it didn’t happen and they kept the line moving. They put a big number there and we couldn’t come back from it.”
On Harang:
“I thought Aaron was terrific six innings, gave up two runs, and our lineup is starting to get hot a little bit. You see up and down the lineup some good swings out of them. You couldn’t ask for anything more out of them.”
On Andrelton and Evan Gattis:
“Simmons just hand the ankle inflammation, it’s day to day with him. Hopefully a day or two run him back out there. And Gattis the same thing with the wrist. He’s available when he’s available. We don’t see anything long-term. Simmons has been a couple of weeks back and forth. It feels good one day and the next day it doesn’t. And Gattis today during bp, I’m throwing bp to him, I think his third round, he comes out of it feeling a little hot spot there and luckily our hand doctor was here and took a look at it and we’re just going to call it day to day for right now.”
On if particular play with Andrelton that tweaked it:
“No, it’s the ankle. He moves around pretty good. He’s pretty active out there. Sometimes he’ll aggravate it and it swells up on him, hopefully we caught it early enough, I didn’t want him to have the rest of the game to hurt it, so took him out of the game got some treatment, and we’ll check him again tomorrow. I think it’s been something that maybe he aggravated it today, but he’s been living with it for a couple weeks. Sometimes it feels better than other days.”
On facing Red Sox again for two more days:
“It’s going to be a nice, going to the American League and use the DH and go to Fenway, get a nice little….if we’re not already in the Fenway, right? The last couple days here. But they’ve got a good crowd. They’ve got a good following. It’s nice to go play there and hopefully get our pitching straight and get our offense going again.”
AARON HARANG
On his outing:
“I had to battle to get out of that first inning with just the one run scoring and then after the layoff there, the challenge there at third with Sizemore, I just missed a spot. I wanted to go down and away and the ball stayed middle on Ross and he was able to get a base hit. other than that I felt like I was able to keep any damage from happening and I was able to get out of some innings when I had runners on base.”
On Heyward’s leadoff homer:
“When the guys come out and they jump on their guy early and get it back to even right away, they’re out there busting their behind to keep us right there in the game too. That was nice to have that come right back and even it out and Lester was able to get out of that second inning there with the double play. That could have gotten a lot worse.”
On if hard to stay mentally focused during layoff for replay:
“It’s not hard to stay loose in that situation. It was only a couple minutes but I just missed with the spot. I wanted to go down and away and the ball stayed middle so it’s one of those things that when you miss your spot, I kind of paid for it.”
On hitting with the bases loaded:
“Usually if a runner is on, I’m bunting him over. But to go up there with the bases loaded, I had the right approach, go middle to opposite field. I just hit it back to where he was able to get a glove on it.”
EVAN GATTIS
On how he got hurt in bp:
“I took a couple swings and started feeling sore, just out of nowhere. So I’ll take another day, see where I’m at tomorrow and just go from there.”
On if they X-rayed it:
“Yeah they took X-rays. The X-rays came back good. Nothing structural…. It’s hard to do anything anyway structurally to a bone swinging a bat. A lot of times it’s tendons and stuff like that.”
On if have had wrist issues before:
“Yeah in Double-A (in 2012, missed more than two months with strained tendons in left wrist) it was a tendon. I got a PRP (platelet-rich plasma injection) for it.”
On if maybe just a couple days:
“I’m hoping so.”
On frustrating week physically:
“Yeah, absolutely, as soon as I start coming back feeling good, then little something like this comes up, it’s definitely frustrating.”
ANDRELTON SIMMONS
On how long he’s been dealing with ankle injury:
“Not long. I just felt it today. It started nagging me a little bit during the inning. Then it wouldn’t go away when we got done with the inning and I tried playing on but just didn’t feel like I was going to help my team, I was going to hurt them more if I stayed in there.”
On not one particular play:
“I didn’t feel it during any play. After we got the second out, after that play, I was fine then walking around it was kind of weird.”
On Fredi saying it bothered for a while:
“It wasn’t bothering me. I maybe felt something but nothing to be concerned about, something small, it’s like I’ll move my ankle around, it feels fine.”
On what they’re telling him now:
“They just said it was some inflammation and putting pressure on it pinches something.”
On chances of playing in next couple of days:
“I don’t know. I feel OK, hopefully it goes away quick. Take some things to take the swelling, or inflammation down, and hopefully ready to go tomorrow. It doesn’t feel, it’s not like a nine out of 10 pain. It’s not a terrible pain. It’s just a nagging thing, so hopefully it stops nagging.”
On Red Sox rallying after 10-game losing streak:
“Yeah they woke up yesterday. We knew we had to keep them down yesterday. We got on them early yesterday but they fought back and somehow found their way back in the game and they eventually won it. And they came out today, they were hungry for another win and they outplayed us.”
On Red Sox finding holes in the seventh inning:
“Yeah they found holes. Sometimes you find breaks. Sometimes you don’t. Somehow their balls fell down and ours didn’t. They put up good at-bats. They fought for those at-bats. You’ve got to give it to them.”
JUSTIN UPTON
On the seventh inning:
“They put together the big inning, they took the lead and didn’t give it back.”
On Red Sox finding holes, but put up the at-bats to do it:
“Yeah you work some at-bats, those things happen. When you put the ball in play, sometimes they fall. Our pitchers can’t hang their head. They just got the better of us today.”
On offensively still moving in the right direction:
“We did a good job tonight facing a tough pitcher. He got out of some jams but we were able to take on some runs when we needed to. They just battled back and scored more runs than we did.”
