I knew in that inning I needed a quick out. With a man on first and second and no outs, I needed a double play there to face the last guy with just a man on third and not give him a whole lot to hit. It worked out great. I took some of their aggressiveness to my benefit. |
I like kind of sneaking up on guys instead of being out front. |
I like those guys to get all the recognition, myself. I don't like to be the guy that stands out. |
I like those guys to get all the recognition, myself. I don't like to be the guy that stands out. I like kind of sneaking up on guys instead of being out front. |
I love the pressure, I love it when it counts, |
I love the pressure. I love pitching in situations where it counts. |
I never go out there with the mindset I'm going to lose. I always go out there to win. Doesn't matter what happened yesterday. A lot of guys get caught up in what happened yesterday. You have to go do your job that day you're out there. |
I shouldn't have went back out there in the seventh inning. It was 11-2. I had 85 pitches. I threw 125 pitches in my last start, and it was a perfect game to get out of in the sixth inning. I was trying to do too much too early in the season. |
I think coming back to our park where it's taking the DH out of the role of American League style ball and getting the pitcher involved, we can do a few more things than they can do offensively, |
I think coming back to our park where it's taking the DH out of the role of American League style ball and getting the pitcher involved, we can do a few more things than they can do offensively. |
I think they made adjustments after the first two times through the lineup, |
I think we corrected two of them, ... Two of them were borderline. |
I thought it was a key situation of the game, especially 2-1, ... That, and two innings before, when they had guys on, could have blew it wide open with a base hit and I was able to make a quality pitch at the time needed. |
I thought the way the team was battling and we had been seeing Maddux pretty well, if we could get something going with a hit or get somebody on, I had a good feeling we'd come back. |
I thought we had good chances. I always thought we had a good chance when I was pitching and it was 4-0. |