This is for everyone who doubted us. People said I couldn't make the transition back to starting. People said we had too many rookies again. But we proved everybody wrong. This is really something to celebrate. |
This is meant to be a compliment, but [Sandberg] is like Davis Love in golf. He doesn't look like he can hit it as far as he does, but it's nice and easy and the ball is 320 yards. That's the best way I can describe Sandberg. |
This is what I know, |
This truly is a dream team. I didn't think it was possible in May. I didn't think it was possible from the time we left spring training with all the things that we were dealing with. Who could have imagined [17] rookies coming up here at different times? |
This whole week is important, not just necessarily tomorrow. |
To be one out away, one pitch away, from winning and then have to play another nine innings -- it's a tough way to lose. When you're put in this position, you're going to have one of two feelings in the end: gut-wrenching or ecstasy. There's only one way you can feel. We got the gut-wrenching. And it doesn't feel real good. |
Today is what you're hopefully going to see all season -- [me] under control and not falling off the mound. |
Today it was never more evident of [Martinez] being masterful. He probably doesn't have great stuff right now. I don't know what he'd say about his stuff. But he flat-out pitches. |
Truly a little bit of irony here, coming back to this stadium. I'd seen enough in 18 innings, but this is the greatest trip of my life, ... This is going to be the first World Series game I ever attended that I didn't play in. |
Ultimately, I did what I wanted to do. If I can throw seven innings the rest of the way and we sustain this lead, it's going to help me a lot. |
We hoped we would win. We had played good in the second half of '90, and I liked some of the changes we made. We were working to learn as much as we could. |
We just have to remember that this thing isn't over until that magic number is at zero. We have to keep our focus. |
We obviously know who they have in their rotation, so it's important that we get an early lead and build some kind of momentum. It should be an exciting series, but I don't foresee a lot of runs being scored. |
We're fortunate that more guys in the last three games didn't have (injuries) happen. |
What this team needs to do is continue [from] this. This was a big win for us. When we've had big wins, we haven't followed them. We need to ride this. |