After the first couple of innings, I started getting ahead of the hitters and was able to do a good job. |
For me, that's what I wanted to do. Sometimes managers won't let their players, for whatever reason. That's a challenge for him. For me, I'd already lost 20 games by this point. It happened well before the end of the year. It's not like I was down to one or two starts. It didn't come down to the wire. |
Good teams find a way to stop the bleeding. For whatever reason, I think we're just trying too hard. Things aren't always going to work out, and they haven't, but you've got to do the things necessary to do the turnaround and get back on track. We just haven't been able to do that. We need to, because we're getting to the end of the season and it's important that we do finish on a positive note. |
He might have been putting a little bit of pressure on himself trying to do too much. For any pitcher, first time out there, you don't know what to expect, you're just trying to go out there and try and get a good feel for the mound, because it's been awhile since we've done it, especially in game atmosphere. |
He's gotten the blame for a lot of things that really aren't his fault. But that's the way it is. Usually the blame falls on the manager or the head coach in sports. I guess you're looking for a change when things aren't going the way you like them. |
He's upset about today. That's obvious. We should be upset about it, too. (Losing) 10-2, it wasn't a pretty game. |
His first year he really wasn't managing, he was teaching. There wasn't much he could do. For him to go through that and even last year ... we still didn't have a lot of options. |
I didn't give it enough time (in 2005). I didn't have confidence in it. I didn't trust it. Talking with Kenny gave me that confidence, that mindset that I needed to have to give it a chance. |
I didn't throw any curve balls today. I didn't like the way my arm was feeling in warm-ups. |
I don't like to single anyone out. But I feel like the entire team was frustrated. |
I felt pretty good. That's always first and foremost. I was able to use all my pitches. Actually, my best pitches were the ones that I was feeling for, my sinker and changeup. I guess I wasn't getting on top of it. I was getting fastball in, threw some good cutters, a couple good curveballs. I was pretty happy with the execution of pitches and the way I felt. |
I got the ground ball I was looking for. |
I had been trying to aim the ball a bit. So I just threw as hard as I could. I wasn't worrying about trying to make a perfect pitch. I just wanted to throw it in the strike zone and give them a different speed. It was very effective. |
I know he won a championship with Florida and had a lot of good years in Pittsburgh. Jim Leyland has a lot of experience and that's something he has over Tram because this was his first managerial job. |
I know what he's going through, ... I can relate to him. I know that feeling, the feeling of going out and having a long season that seems much longer than it really is. |