Big Red

While Seth McClung's outing yesterday was not enjoyable, his quotes in today's paper critiquing that performance sure were:

On his 6 walks in the game:

"I know the walks are staggering, but pitches were there, they were close," said McClung, who before this season hadn't started a major-league game since his days in Tampa Bay. "It was definitely competitive. I don't feel like I just gave it up.

"There's some game tapes in Tampa if you want to see totally wild."

On the decision to intentionally walk Chipper Jones prior to giving up a long ball to Mark Teixeira:

"The first at-bat I broke (Jones') bat in two and the next one I put some pretty good pitches together," McClung said of the decision to walk Jones, now hitting .420, to get to Teixeira.

"But the guy's batting .750. He's hot right now."

On the pitch to Teixeira that ended up in the seats:

"I left the pitch in to Teixeira. That's the bottom line: I put the pitch in the wrong spot. It got clobbered."

Seems McClung is quotable, if nothing else.