MASN: Kubatko: Trembley’s post-game remarks come fast and furious

“If loyalties must be broken, If the lines must be crossed, do it fast, do it furious!”

“It’s three balls and two strikes and you’re running, and it’s a fly ball. Don’t you stop?” Trembley asked. “It’s not Kamikaze baseball. You don’t just run until you’re out. To me, that’s just a total mental breakdown on his (Oscar Salazar’s) part. Total. And to be honest to you, that’s embarrassing to me and the club and the people who are watching the game. And I’m not burying him, but that’s not right.”

“It’s not like he (Brian Bass) was just missing off the plate,” Trembley said. “He was done, he was out of gas. When Kranitz went to the mound, Kranitz came back and said, ‘He’s done.’ He had lost it. If you’re watching the game, you saw it. He’s a great kid, he has a good arm, but if he’s telling me that he’s going to be a starting pitcher, we’ve got a ways to go to do something to get him to that point. He seems more like a two- or three-inning guy. He’s got good stuff. He pounds it down, late, movement, boom. Then all of a sudden, the switch goes off.

“In all sincerity, people who think he should have stayed in because he’s got a no-hitter and he just walked the ballpark, I don’t buy that. I don’t buy that at all. The guy was done. Look at his legs, look at his face, look at his arm angle. He’s underneath pitches. He was done. Done. Cooked. I leave him out there and let him get hurt, then what’s that?”