I was nervous. I know what's at stake. |
I was the third assistant on the shoot. We built the set and everything. |
I'll be pitching for [Brett] a little bit. |
I'll be ready either way. I'm on my regular routine. I'm not changing a thing. |
I'm pretty flexible. It's all up to Victor and how he feels. I'm still on my schedule, so it doesn't matter. |
I'm the new guy. My job is to lay low and pitch whatever they need pitched. If I stay in the shadows and eat innings all year, I'll be doing my job. |
I'm trying to take advantage of it like in spring training. It's one of those things where I'd like to get over with it now and go out there, and once that happens, then I feel like I can be a part of this team and really just rely on these guys like they can on me. |
I'm very much interested in the process of pitching. |
It was kind of a bittersweet day. My mom was having a tough morning because one child was having surgery and the other had good news. |
It's a knack, it's a gift, and there's also a lot of hard work that goes into it. There's a reason you have a .700 career winning percentage. He always gives his team a chance. When he gets on the mound, everybody just has a faith in him. That's the best thing you can do as a starting pitcher: give your team a belief they're going to win that night. |
It's not torn. It's not anything severe. It's really just tight right now. If it was more severe I'd probably be sitting down. |
It's really just tight right now. I don't think it's that bad. |
My approach is I don't give in. I'll walk guys before I'll give them a pitch they can drive. I'll keep making my pitches all day. |
That's how I should have done it. If I were pitching against Cuba now, I'd attack them so much differently. |
That's winning ugly and just staying alive out there. Sometimes I wonder what I win with. Sometimes it's just pure determination. |