A pitching coach needs to be a good pin cushion. He's somebody that will talk to you during the game and listen to you and (you can) throw stuff off of him. |
All I ever told anybody about him coming back and pitching is that if Roger's healthy, he's going to pitch awesome. That's just all there is to it. So it's not really all that amazing. |
All it's been doing this postseason is adding a little more gray hair to my head, |
All it's been doing this postseason is adding a little more gray hair to my head. |
All you can say is, if a guy is tipping pitches, you just hope he and the pitching coach can work on it, look at some video or whatever, and see it, ... before you screw up in a World Series. |
And then what a bonus it will be if he comes back. |
Another tough win, ... The guys picked me up. They scored some runs tonight. Obviously, that was huge. Another good win. A good win after losing (Monday) night. |
Any time you get nominated for an award, you appreciate it, ... It's never anything you think about, like, 'I want to try to win the Good Guy Award this year.' It's nice. |
Basically, ... I feel like I cost us a World Series ring. |
Brandon was throwing the ball real well, and we weren't seeing the ball off him the first time around, ... We had another big inning in the fifth, and that's huge. |
Give them a lot of credit: When I made a bad pitch, they took advantage of it. |
He just does a great job of communicating with us and that's all you can ask for. You get a good relationship with someone like that and the relationship is really what it's all about. |
He said he had seen her sick before. He was hoping that she would be able to pull through. She's pulled through plenty of times before. She must have been extremely sick. |
He's dangerous. You've got to expand the zone, and I didn't do that. It was extremely frustrating at-bat for me, looking back on the game. When that happened, I threw him a fastball in, and he pulled it foul. I went right back in there, and it was in, and he's a good hitter. He hit it out. That was frustrating. |
He's got major decisions to make. I would never try to ask him or persuade him to do anything that he doesn't want to do. |