It's not three losses in a row. It's 15 in a row. It is painful. It is ugly. It hurts. It is tough on everybody. |
Mauer was the guy who hurt me. He's a good hitter and right now he's seeing the ball like it's a big trash can. |
Sometimes you feel like they're not talking to you because you're Dominican. You don't want to use the word racist, but you want to have somebody in the game who knows our culture and can relate to us, and then we don't feel left out. |
The way things are going now, everybody kills me. |
They are testing me to see how my arm is. My arm feels good. |
They came to swing today. |
They're Major League hitters. You make a mistake, they make you pay. |
This is tough. This is something we didn't plan. Nothing is going our way right now. |
This win is like winning a playoff game. We're a young team, we stuck together and took it like a man. It's tough to stay tough, but we did it. |
This year has been like a nightmare. It's been real tough, every start hurts. |
You know what, this has happened all year long, ... I gave up a couple runs in the first inning. I was trying to stay away from the big inning. I'm trying to be, probably, too fine. |