This team knows how to bounce back in tough situations. |
This was a big swing game. Hopefully now we come out and win this game [today]. Now the worst we're going to leave here is a series up on these guys. This late in the season, that's a big deal. |
Today was probably as bad a fastball physically as I've felt like I've had all spring. But I say it every spring. None of it matters now. All this stuff is over. I'm healthy and I'm going to get the ball on Monday for real. |
Today was probably as bad a fastball physically as I've felt like I've had all spring. Regardless of my emotions coming out of this game or how I feel about everything. I've got to be ready to go Monday. |
Today was very much a struggle for me from a consistency standpoint. I did struggle, command-wise, getting ahead. I had trouble being consistent tonight. I take solace in the fact that when we needed to make some pitches, early in the game, we made 'em. |
Tonight I probably pitched in more than any start I've done in my career. I had a game plan and we executed. The stuff has been there, and I felt in the seventh inning, velocity-wise, when I had to have it, I had it. That's a big boost. |
Warming up for the second inning, I threw my split-finger and everything clicked. The first two starts, I haven't felt like I've been consistently bearing the pitch well and I didn't feel like I've been throwing it at a good angle. And I threw it and it was exactly what I wanted it to be from a feel standpoint. And mentally, I was like, 'There it is.' From that point on, when I needed a strikeout, I felt very comfortable about command, fastball-wise, and about the fact I could bury my split in the ground. |
We are in first place with five days left in the season, |
We are in first place with five days left in the season, ... We have a winnable game sitting there with the chance to be in first place all alone with me on the mound. In my mind, that's a lock, and it hasn't been, and I haven't made it [one]. That's probably the most frustrating thing. |
We just weren't good enough to win again, |
We won a lot more games than we lost when I was down there, and that was the goal, ... I went down there to try and help seal a leak and patch a hole. I'd like to think I did that for the most part. I mean, I certainly didn't pitch as well as I would have liked, but we played well and won games while I was down there. |
We'll show up in spring training and get ready for the season and try to win another World Series, ... It's not like we're going to have a sit-down. |
We're playing in an environment in the last decade that's been tailored to produce offensive numbers anyway, with the smaller ballparks, the smaller strike zone and so forth, |
When I do we'll go from there. |
When we realized how many people had nowhere to go, we didn't just want to make a donation, ... We decided we wanted to bring an entire family here and put them up. |