It's very psychological when you begin the season. It seems like guys are too impatient and don't realize how long the season is. You fret when you don't have to. You start to doubt yourself. I've been in that position one too many times. But so far I've been fortunate enough to have good at-bats. |
Last year was last year. We're going to be a better team for that experience. |
Maybe it'll give us some comfort knowing we played with the best team, beat the best team and we're just as capable as they are. |
No one in here is going to panic. No one in here is discouraged. We've got a month and a half left. |
Nobody is hanging their head. You like to win every game, expect to win every game, but taking two of three against a great team is a good thing. |
Not scoring in an inning like that can sometimes be a big momentum swinger. But when a guy is locked in like Scotty (Elarton) was, it doesn't matter. |
That was nice. It's nice to hear fans cheering for us. That was cool. |
That was our strategy against him, to play over and in. I was trying to guard against a hit in front of me, too. I didn't think he could hit it over my head. |
They kind of gave it to us. Obviously, they cut their own throats. You won't see that too often, big leaguers dropping a ball, let alone two in one inning. |
This is how we expect to play. We expect to win every night. |
We can't make the big games bigger. |
We expected to win today. We expected to win the whole last week. When we really needed the runs, they were hard to come by. |
We just didn't have it. The end of the year came, we were asking guys for something, and we just didn't have it. |
We need to remember the adversity that we overcame this year. Hopefully, that will help us the next five games. |
We started to play up to our capabilities and our expectations, and it started to come together, ... I just thought we'd be tough when we put our pitching and our offense together. When you have those pistons firing all together, it produces wins. |