It will be a tough home run to top, given the timing and when and where it happened. I don't hit too many home runs, no less a walk-off home run in the World Series. |
It's frustrating when you have a leg injury and your legs are the best part of your game. I tried to go out and give what I had. |
It's going to be really special. |
It's in a more controlled environment to where I don't have to go all out. I can test it and see where we stand. |
It's the same side, but it's not the exact same injury. It's a little farther down into the muscle, which is better. It's not close to the bone. That's why I think it bounced back further than I expected. |
It's up to me to go out and prepare myself, to make sure I get good, loose and hot. I think that was somewhat our approach (rest) last year. I felt pretty strong. |
One more celebration to go. |
Our pitching has set the tone for us from day one. They don't have words to describe what our starting staff has gone out and done this series. |
That is what we are hoping for. I did some work on the treadmill (Wednesday) and it felt pretty good. We are a little further than we anticipated. |
That remains to be seen, depending on who is throwing that day, depending on how the leg is feeling. I'm hoping not to have any problems once I get this thing behind me. |
That's the difference in having an offense that can score in other ways than hitting the ball out of the park or getting base hits,'' Raines said. |
The big thing was to get runners on base and drive them in. We got a whole team effort and Jose Contreras pitched a great game and kept down their hitters. It's a nice way to start, so now we have to keep this up. |
The guy is just a lot of fun to watch. We like our chances with runners on base and him at the plate. |
There are a lot of things that went right for us this year. We start from scratch now. |
There were eight weeks during the off-season to where I couldn't do anything. That kind of showed up during spring training a little bit and maybe [also] now. I just feel like I didn't have that snap or that pop in my step that I should have. Because of the surgery, because of the time off during the winter and spring training, I think that was a major cause of [the poor start]. |