Approach-wise, we did a little bit better as far as making him throw strikes. He's effective because he puts the ball on the corner or right off the corner. We had a better plan today as far as trying to get some better pitches to hit. |
Hopefully we can do this all over again. But there's a long way to go. |
I didn't know it was a record, I was just trying to go up there and get a hit every time. |
I don't think that this group really has to talk about it too much. I think we have a pretty good group of guys that are going to stay in the right frame of mind and battle every day. |
I know I can play every day in this league. As far as the (Jays') moves, I didn't even think, 'Gee I'm glad they didn't make any outfield moves. We got a couple of pitchers we needed. We needed a closer and we got that. We needed a power bat and we got that. Wow! |
I mean, he came out of the game. What's up with that? There's a certain way to do things. Suck it up. Take the pain. Anyone can get hit. It's staying in there that's the challenge to the whole thing. I'll have to have a word with him. |
I think the thing that helps is the ocean swells. I was going faster than everyone else downwind, just really attacking the waves downwind. I'm not used to waves like that. |
I think you'd see a lot of teams roll over in that situation. We continued to take it one at-bat at a time and it nearly added up in the end. |
I thought I probably should have won. I made some stupid mistakes. |
I was kind of working through the ball and trying to catch it, and all of a sudden I'm lying on the ground. I still got a piece of it, but not enough, ... At the time, [they were] two pretty big runs. At the time, it's like the whole stadium's watching you. You have that feeling -- you're thinking that might have been the game. |
It changes things a lot when one of the best pitchers in the game gets ejected. I think you'd see a lot of teams roll over in that situation. |
It changes things a lot when one of the best pitchers in the league gets ejected. That's a big turning point in the game for any team. |
It was a nice turnaround, |
No matter how set the lineup is, someone could step forward. |
That's all that counts for us right now. |