Just stepping to the plate, just understanding it's you vs. him, that's all that really mattered at that point. |
Knock on wood, I've been hanging in there. |
Last year had a lot of tradition and a lot of history and now we're opening up something new -- and it's beautiful. It's a new era of baseball. You definitely miss the old stadium, but now you have something as beautiful as this. You're kind of torn between them both. |
My job is to get on base so he has a chance to get a hit in any situation. Tonight I was not able to do that. When he has the bat in his hand, you never know [what might happen]. |
Nobody's talking about that. That's the first I've heard of it. We're just playing each game hard. |
Not too many guys around like me. |
On paper, we have more talent [than 2002]. Without a doubt. And we have more experience now, because we've done it before. But it's a long season. |
One of the biggest things, when you have a pitcher throwing a lot of strikes like that, is to not let him get comfortable throwing strike one. If you let him start to feel like he can just lay it in, lay it in, all of a sudden you're behind. |
Personally, I can handle myself after this, ... but I feel disappointed in letting them down. |
Right in that time of day if you hit the ball right there, you can't see it, |
Scott's a hard-nosed guy who really understands and loves playing the game. |
That could come down to a 1-0 game with those guys on the mound. So it was very key for us to go out there and get some runs early. |
That is the key. The toughest thing sometimes is getting that ground ball, and they seem to get the ground ball. They might give up a hit. They might give up a walk. But they finally get that key ground ball when it's time to focus in. It's a good thing. |
That just shows you with our club there's a lot of different ways we can go out there and we can get a victory. Grudzielanek had a great night, but once again you were looking at Nunez. |
That was one time that I was not going to take the extra base. If it was earlier in the game, I probably was going to take the extra base. You've got to give your best guy the opportunity to win the game. |