[After Rodriguez gave up a single to Tony Graffanino that loaded the bases, Edgar Renteria hit a comebacker to the mound.] It was looking like a tailor-made double play, ... The throw wasn't quite where we wanted it. |
[Don't worry, the Yankees say.] Joe might be panicking underneath it all, ... but he never shows it to us. |
[Johnson did not stick around after the game to discuss what happened, but catcher John Flaherty said the two men were jawing throughout much of the first two innings.] In the first inning they went back and forth and Fieldin told him, to his credit, that he had had enough, and to calm it down, ... When Randy gets excited, he says a lot to the umpires about pitches he thinks are strikes. It's nothing new. |
[Johnson, now 4-0 against Boston this season, took it into the game. When Johnny Damon tried to bunt on the second pitch of the game, Johnson glared at him.] He gave him a look and let everybody know that he was ready for this game, ... He stepped up ... It was a look that I've gotten a few times, and it doesn't make you real comfortable. |
[The four million fans who filled Yankee Stadium this season made an awful lot of noise, but none of that will reach the Yankees in Boston.] It's not a deterrent, ... There's nothing like playing here, like having the last at-bat. But we feel good about ourselves, home or on the road. |
After he reached for his leg I went out to talk to him during that inning. He said the leg was fine but that he was letting it all out that inning. |
As Mike Mussina says, it became mindless for him. He wasn't thinking about his mechanics. Everything was just falling into place. I think that's why we saw the emotion, the intimidation. The velocity is up. His slider is nasty. |
Early in the game, one swing of the bat could have broken it open, and we'd probably have a different outcome. It didn't happen. |
Even those who would be willing to take the time to do it can't. They just can't afford it. |
From the way he warmed up and what happened the first three innings, we thought it was going to be a fun day for us. It just got out of hand in the fourth. |
He controlled his emotions. I'd like to see him get a little more excited out there, but I think he was guarded after what happened the last start in Toronto, and that's only natural. |
He had great stuff but not great location. But his stuff was good enough to overpower that lineup. |
He looked like the old Schilling. |
He was ready to go before this game even started. I was talking to him about the lineup. He mentioned he was going to be into this game and ready for it. |
He's a very detail-oriented guy. For this job, he's got a great combination of old-school work ethic - knowing how to put the time in - and the new generation that uses computers and video to get as much information as possible. |