It would have been pretty tough going home losing five days in a row. But we feel better about it now, winning this last game and winning it convincingly. |
It would have been pretty tough to go home losing five games in a row. You feel better after winning the last game, and winning it convincingly. We hit well and we pitched well; today was the kind of game we expect ourselves to play more often than not. |
It's a possibility, I guess, but not a significant concern. |
It's a situation you have to deal with once in a while. You think you're making good pitches but you don't get the calls. You have to deal with what you have to deal with. |
It's always tough not to rush yourself. If I didn't want to be out there pitching, I could have probably spoken up a long time ago. But I could still go out there and do the job, and I felt it wasn't bothering me to do what I wanted to do. But when it got to the point where it was bothering me, then it was time to take it seriously and realize that you might be seriously hurting yourself. |
It's good to see us come out after the off day and keep the momentum going. The last two years I got off to a little bit of a slow start and I've been able to figure things out five or six starts into the season. We're playing more like we thought we would, more like we think we're capable of. |
It's nice to get some competition and do it for real. |
It's no consolation how far we've come. We had a chance. And we didn't win. |
It's not bad enough, ... to where I can't do what I want to do. |
It's not fun going that fast and hitting the breaks, |
Much less. Much less. A lot of times it's not noticeable at all, which is a tremendous improvement. Obviously, we're going in the right direction. |
No more playing three weeks in a row. |
No scouting report. Just give me a break, settle it down a little bit. It was a good time for it. |
Not really, ... We split here and split in New York, so I'm not sure you can really look at home field one way or the other. We played well at home, and we played well on the road, too. |
One hit, one ground ball up the middle, and anything can happen right there to change the whole structure of the game. That was a big spot. |