The way I look at it, when I go out on the mound, there's a guy on the other team that's pitching in the same park. The numbers might not be as great as they are in some other parks. But the final thing is all about winning. |
There is no pressure. I put enough pressure on myself anyway. You can number your starters one through five, but every guy that goes out there feeling like you are the number one guy. If you don't you are in trouble. The number in the rotation is there so you can know what day you are going to throw. |
They seemed a little bit louder today. |
This will be my third opener. The first at home. I'm looking forward to that. |
Walks are never good, and one of the bad pitches I made was to Lee and he hit it out of the park. I didn't think I had great stuff. I started feeling better by the fifth inning and started battling through it. |
We seem to always lose the close games to them, but we've got two left. We win them both and we know we've got at least a playoff on Monday. |
We were going to drop a bomb on that conditioning field out there but ... |
We were pretty much in the playoffs until this last week. |
We're playing as good as anyone right now, |
We're playing as good as anyone right now. Our starting pitching has been good all year, our bullpen is the best in the league, and now we're starting to get production from the bottom of our order, which is huge. |
We're right where we need to be. We can get in one way or the other. |
You can number your starters one through five if you want. But every guy that goes out there has got to pitch like a No. 1 guy. If you don't, then you're in trouble. |