He comes off the field after another homer, and there's no emotion on his face, |
He just told me that he believes in me enough to leave me out there in that situation to get out of it. When a manager believes in you in a situation like that, leaves you in, that's something to take to the bank. It did a lot for me. That was outstanding. |
He wants our expectations to be greater than maybe they've been. |
He's Jim Thome. He's good. But in the future with him, being left-handed, I've got to do a little bit better. |
I basically had one bad inning and it made the whole season look bad. I just had to keep going and keep grinding. |
I did a couple slide steps and then threw a couple pitches wide and was worried more about holding the runner instead of throwing a quality pitch. So when he said something, you put two and two together and you figure it out. |
I heard Jim Leyland is an old-school guy and a disciplinarian, and that's fine with me. That's the kind of structure I grew up in. |
I respect every bit who Trammell is and what he stands for, ... and I hope that respect is always given by the people of Detroit. There's times we didn't win and people started to turn a little bit, but you always judge a man by his character. |
I think I had life on my pitches -- I wasn't throwing beach balls up there, ... I don't think I'm tired. |
I thought I had pitched well enough to win some of those games, ... Tonight, I made pitches when I needed them, and the defense made the plays. |
I thought I pitched well today, except for the home runs. |
I threw three straight changeups to Boone, then a fastball inside and he turned on it. That club is doing all the things right, right now. |
If I had that every time I went out, I'd have a chance to go 32 or 33-0. It's not going to be that way all year long. We as pitchers know that. |
If I had that every time out, I'd go 32-, 33-0. |
It was a lot of things. It was personal. It was a team thing. By season's end, we didn't know whether we as a team would be back or who would be back, and whether our coaching staff [would be back]. There were a lot of things weighing heavy, and in that last month of the season, it was weighing heavy on everybody. It was a very difficult clubhouse to be in. |