If you had told me that Alberto Gonzalez would make two errors in the first inning, I'd have bet my mortgage against it. |
Jackson has overcome a lot of adversity, and had struggled with his ERA this season. To win this championship we needed someone to step up like he did. He should be the most valuable player of this series. |
Just one or two pitches, and then things got out of hand. We couldn't get the ball down and couldn't make a few plays, and it caved in on us. It was all of a sudden, boom. It was a great 2-1 ball game, and then ... you've got to make pitches. And the bullpen has been a bright spot for us this season. They've been strong for us. They gave it up tonight, but they've been consistent. |
Raab made some good pitches when he needed to. |
Running behind all those big guys, he can get lost in there. That's an advantage for him. |
That was his first bunt hit of the year. |
They did what they had to do to stay alive in this series, but you know the attitude of our kids. They'll be out there battling (tonight). |
They kept coming at us. But our size took them over. |
This is part of development, too. It's that way in Cleveland and New York. If you're going to play in the big leagues, you'd better get used to it. |
This was a nice one for us to get today. I'm really happy for Manuel. He battled and battled to get the count to 2-0. He then got a fast ball and was able to take it the other way, which is exactly what you're supposed to do in that situation. |
Those guys can flat out hit. Fortunately our pitching was able to minimize the damage from the errors. |
We couldn't make the adjustment. |
We don't have a lot of secrets left, so everybody's got to step up. I think we have enough weapons that they can't key on one kid to shut us down. It's pretty much my best athletes against your best athletes. |
We let him off the hook. He didn't have good command of the strike zone, and we needed to be more disciplined. We chased a lot of balls out of the strike zone. |
We've seen them a lot, we know what they have. And they have good pitching. It'll be a battle. |