Yes, the extra run was big, |
You can't teach confidence, |
You figured it out, didn't you? Pretty good for a writer. |
You usually don't see this type of celebration when the Yankees win a division, |
You're going to get a lot of opportunities to do a lot of damage. |
You're obviously scared to death. That ball seemed like it was 110 miles an hour off the bat. |
You're representing 400 million (300 million, actually) Americans. That's a pretty big responsibility. |
[As a result, Torre held more pep rallies than he cared to count.] He gave more speeches this year than Shakespeare, ... And every time he gave a new speech, he kept things together. He's the glue. |
[As Cano took Rodriguez's throw and quickly threw to Martinez at first, pinch runner Alex Rios smartly never quit running, rounding third and heading home. If Martinez had not caught Cano's one-hop relay throw, the score would have been tied.] If he's safe at first, the game's tied, ... The game is tied. |
[But I have had nothing to do with his strikeouts. I have only watched them, and in so doing I got the impression that he was striking out more often. Checking the records, I found out he was.] When you get 100 walks and you do the production I have and you have an on-base percentage like I do, ... you don't really concern yourself with that. I don't, anyway. |
[Cano is 22-for-47 since Aug. 31 after a 10-for-57 stretch.] The one thing you can't teach is confidence, ... and he has great confidence for a young player. |
[Hitters say all that spin on a 69- to 74-mile-per-hour pitch can be devastating.] I have never seen anything like it, ... It's such a high one, and it drops three to four feet. You might as well not even look for it because you're not going to hit it. |
[Last night, his role was that of a star.] You're not thinking home run, ... You're thinking that maybe he's going to get a single. Then he gets up there and hits one like Darryl Strawberry. |
[Rodriguez's greatest concession, however, is abandoning his natural position.] When I thought about it, ... I said, `Why not do it?' |