There's no doubt that this felt like a playoff game, especially in the later innings. The crowd was going bananas, you can't hear. It's an awesome environment to play in. |
There's no doubt the atmosphere felt like a playoff game, especially in the later innings, ... The crowd was going bananas. You can't hear. It was just an awesome environment to play in. |
There's virtually no pressure on me, ... The pitcher has got to throw it over the plate. I got some good pitches to hit in those situations. |
They did a great job of coming back in that spot and that provides a tremendous amount of confidence. But they still have to climb up the hill. We're up a game and we have two more horses coming at them. We're in the driver's seat. |
This is a circus. It's a lot. It's something you knew you were going to have. |
This is obviously a crucial time for us. It's just not a fun time to be hurt. But again, I can't concentrate on that. I have to concentrate on the fact that I'm happy that I even have a chance to play, that my hand should be broken right now. |
This might be the loosest team in baseball history. I think it's a credit to the guys in this room. We never quit, we never get down, and when we lose a game ... we come back the next day and give it our best shot. And when you have a guy like Roy, who wins 20 games even though we didn't score any runs for him, you have to like your chances. |
This seriously is one of the loosest teams in the history of baseball, ... It has to do with the character of the squad and starting 15-30. When you start off in the loser echelons of baseball, you learn how to come together quickly. |
This seriously is one of the loosest teams in the history of baseball. It has to do with the character of the squad and starting 15-30. When you start off in the loser echelons of baseball, you learn how to come together quickly. |
We didn't hit the ball hard. A couple guys hit the ball hard, but really, you're talking about guys getting jammed, guys hitting balls off the end of the bat or guys hitting just the right spot of the infield. We did a good job of placing the ball tonight. |
We go out to dinner with Andy quite a bit, and it's not so bad. ... But if you add Roger, it's unbelievable. It's like they're superheroes, and when they're together, their powers multiply. It's like being out with the Fantastic Four. Roger -- he belongs in the League of Justice. I actually think he's already secretly in it. There's Superman, and there's Spider-Man. And he's the Rocket. |
We look at our pitching, and we just wonder where we'd be with any kind of offense. But we can't do anything about that. What we have to do is try our best to score some runs, because we know if we get to four or five per game, we've got a great chance to win. |
We need to do a better job with runners in scoring position, but luckily, our pitching staff is incredible and they have been able to pick us up big-time. |
We need to make sure we understand all the positive things we did tonight, ... and not just take it as a great win. We need to understand that this was a growing up of sorts as a team. We can't just chalk this up to saying, 'This was a great comeback win.' We need to play this way for the next month. That's our only chance to get into the playoffs. We can't die. We have to go down swinging. |
We obviously have the ability to completely struggle like no other. I guess it depends on what day you get us. |