[Houston: Andy Pettitte, Roger Clemens and Craig Biggio have all invested as part-owners in the Astros' AA Corpus Christi franchise and have been having fun with teammates Brandon Backe and Jeff Bagwell doing rehab assignments there this week.] Backe went there, and I told him if he didn't have a good outing, I might have to get rid of him, ... Baggie went down and I was going to go watch him but that may have put a little more pressure on him to perform with the boss in town. |
[The Phillies] are feeling pretty good about themselves right now. But we still feel good about what we're doing, too. We feel like we're strong, we feel like we're going to be able to pull through this and get it done. |
[Webb] threw a great game. What can you say? We were beating the ball into the ground all night. |
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. |