Mentally, we could have fallen apart, but this team doesn't do that. We could have had the attitude that we're snake-bit, but we didn't. |
My change-up didn't show up until the fourth or fifth inning, ... I hung up a couple of breaking balls in that (fourth) one inning. |
One of the reasons I signed here was because of the way this team played on defense. Jason set the tone with some good catches. |
See, I needed that. I don't know if you noticed, but I didn't get my first strikeout until the fourth or fifth inning. I need guys to make plays for me out there. |
tell us where to play and we'll be there. |
That?s one of the reasons I signed here. I really like our defense. |
That's me, contact all over the place. Ground balls, fly balls, that's my game. More times than not, I'll take that. I'll definitely take that with the defense I have behind me here. |
That's not something that's gonna happen a lot with me. I pride myself on making you earn first base. |
That's not us. If you take things for granted in this game, you're done. |
The big diesel freight train vs. the little engine that could, |
The mood was up in the locker room, which was nice. We've had a couple of red-eye flights. I think we were a little delirious, so we were kind of happy. I was glad to go out there and give us a good performance. I wanted to pitch a lot of innings. |
The thing I see is that we're getting the hits now. Before, maybe if a guy crushed a line drive, it was hit right at somebody for an out. Now the hits are starting to fall in and we're stringing them together. |
They hit some balls hard but they were right at people. We're similar teams. It's a good match-up. |
They picked me up, ... I can't say anything more than that. |
We could have fallen apart and felt like everyone was against us, but we didn't do that. We could have had the attitude that we're snakebit, but we didn't. |