We wanted to be able to win on our home field, ... We knew we had it, but at the same time, we wanted to earn it. |
We've won 14 in a row, and people always want to knock you off. You use that as motivation. You don't want to be the guys who lose. |
What was impressive was that we fought back. Even a couple of times we had runners at first or second, we hit into a couple of double plays, we were still able to come back and do what we needed to do and that's promising. |
When we got behind 8-0, nobody in the dugout could believe it. |
When you've got guys like Andruw (Jones), Chipper (Jones), Julio (Franco) and Marcus (Giles) in front of you, you have some RBI chances. A pitcher doesn't want to pitch to those guys. He'd rather pitch to a rookie any day. |
You can't worry about that and let it put pressure on you. That's not the right mind-set. We know what we've got to do this year. |
You could always tell he had such a sweet swing, |
You don't want to look at one game and put too much emphasis on it, |