The way his ball moves, he knows he doesn't have to throw it by anyone, so he doesn't try. The other thing is, Aaron throws a lot of strikes. He's always in good counts. So he never lets a hitter get too comfortable. |
The way we played the first two months, it says something that we got to this point, |
There aren't a lot of teams that could lose four starters in four months, be standing there on Aug. 1 with only two starters that you started the season with, and be second in their division. Somehow, we've been able to hold it together. |
There wasn't one thing that went wrong. They scored five runs. |
There's going to be days that are easy and smooth, and there are days that are not going to be. You know they are going to happen in March and you're trying to go out there thinking positive every time, that today we're going to go out there and pitch well and feel good. When it isn't, it's not an easy day. Today wasn't that easy. |
There's so much speculation, so why not just do everything you can to just find out what was going on and what really happened? |
These guys came in and surprised us, helped us and kept us where we are. The Red Sox got hot and we've been able to hang with them. We could easily be seven or eight games out, but it's still inside of five, so we feel decent about our chances. |
They don't strike out very much, they put the ball in play, they use the field. We have to do our best to hold them down and keep them off base and try not to let them get any big innings going on us. |
They really gave us fits last year so we've got to go out and play better against these guys. This was a good start. We played the kind of game we want to go out and play every time. |
They want to see if I'm healthy. And so do I. |
This is a playoff game, ... There are no limits. |
This is one of those situations you have to deal with. We'll get back out there as soon as possible, but I'm certainly not going to risk anything long-term to get out there and rush myself and try to do something I shouldn't do. |
This is only the third time I've been to the mound since I had three weeks off, ... One was good and one was bad, so I didn't have any idea what to expect. The two extra days off certainly helped me. |
This was his first time out, wasn't it? Looked like his first day. |
This was only the third time I've been to the mound since I had three weeks off, |