I just try to improve a little bit each day. I don't necessarily feel comfortable at the plate yet. |
I look at it as if I'm supposed to be out there. |
I look at it as if I'm supposed to be out there. That's what you train for and hope for. You're mixing hard work with some luck. But I want to come to work every day and do the best I can. |
I think it's very important very important. We feel pressure a little bit with having to win some games, because we feel we are a better team than what we've been showing. |
I was excited. He's really good, and he's been around a lot of great hitters. |
I was just thinking about that to myself a minute ago. It seems like, later on in the game, we start squaring balls up a little bit more. We do a better job of hitting late in the game. The secret would be to be able to do that all game long. And we haven't been able to do that. I can't put my finger on it. I really wish I could. |
I wasn't going to let him go back there, no way. |
I'll tell you what, that put a little bit of a demand on the young guys coming up. You're taking BP with those guys — they were unbelievable. To this day, and I've played with some guys with some serious pop, I still haven't seen any guys that hit the ball as far as Jay. |
Ichiro changes your mind about what's possible. |
It doesn't feel like we're swinging the bat a whole lot better against right-handers. We're not swinging the bats well collectively. |
It was good to finally be sitting at the adults' table. My first few years here, I wasn't part of it at all. |
It's a great win. I don't know if it's so much a sigh of relief, but we came back and beat the world champions. |
It's definitely frustrating. It's aggravating. It's all of those things. At the same time, they say it's not how many times you fall off the horse. It's how many times you get back up. We're going to keep getting up and keep fighting at this thing. |
It's hard for me to watch them go through this. It's painful, really. It's a great baseball town. A great city. Loyal fans. And then to watch them go through this. ... You wouldn't wish this on your worst enemy, much less an organization that you respect and are fond of. |
Later on in the game our at-bats get better, and I don't know if it's a mental thing. I don't know. |