I'm ready to go. I'm there. |
I'm really leaning on my teammates. |
I've got to be able to hold a lead like that. I feel bad for my teammates. |
It was a privilege to pitch in front of a crowd like that. |
It's just a tough lineup to pitch to. I just couldn't believe they kept hitting the ball out. I mean, I can believe it because I saw it, but I just didn't think, when I threw those pitches, that was the result that was going to happen. |
It's my birthday, too. I'd like to talk to you more about the science of pitching. |
It's not the way you want to get started. I just had a bad day ... The disappointment is I put my team in a bad situation and we lost. |
It's over. I just had a bad day. No panic button. I'm not worried about it. I put my team in a bad situation, and we lost. |
It's really nice to come down to the military base and show them our support. I have a lot of respect for people in the military. There aren't many jobs back home, so one of the options for a lot of us is to go into the military. It's very common for people back home to do that. |
Keep the ball in the park. |
My intent was to criticize myself and my frustration with my inability to get the job done of late. |
My performance, it's nothing compared to what those guys did today. It's about them. Tonight those guys went out there and shined. I just tried to get them back up there as quick as I could. |
So many times, the media gets stereotyped as being bad guys to talk to, but with Paul, no one ever had any qualms about that. He was always smiling; he always treated you fairly. You could talk to him about anything. I really had a friendship with him. I miss the guy. |
The relationship with Toby has been big. You want to talk about a difference in my game, that's it. ... We sat down and figured some things out. It's experience, too. The more you pitch with each other, the more you trust people's decisions. |
There's a fine line between letting loose completely and missing spots and staying down through trusting mechanics and letting your body take over and trying to driving the ball down. (Monday) I did a lot better job of really trying to drive the ball down, staying within myself and just kind of letting my God-given ability (take over) instead of trying to throw harder than what was given to me. |