I knew that it was gone right when I hit it. I was so excited that I missed first base and had to go back and touch it.

It is definitely good. It is never a bad thing to have too much pitching. We’re glad to have him; he has great stuff.

I wouldn’t say that, … You’re aware that you need to pitch well to win, but sometimes that can bring out the best in you. I’ve always enjoyed pitching in big games when the pressure...

This is a huge positive for us,

Our mitigation strategy was the realignment of the road. We need to back up and start all over with a new strategy. Otherwise, I don’t feel any level of comfort.

It is a huge positive. Most of this year we’ve needed really good starting pitching to win. For the offense to come back like that has to give both the pitchers and the offense the...

I was locating my fastball well. I didn’t feel bad about not finishing the game. It’s all about the win.

I didn’t quite get it up enough, … Looking back, maybe I should have thrown a slider down and away and taken my chances with the next guy. It’s tough when every pitch means something.

It hasn’t been a season where we can pitch OK to win; we have to pitch well to win, … We know the potential of this offense. We have a lot of great players who...

You don’t face ALCS teams every day during the regular season,

When we have two jurisdictions, we have to have a meeting of the minds.

I just hung a couple breaking balls. That was the main thing. I really have no excuses. We’ll be fine. They’ve got to win a couple more games. We have two games left at the...

They were hitting some balls at some people. Guys made some big plays for me. The double play in the eighth was huge for me, to get through that.

I was getting after it pretty good. I was able to let it go.

I think both sides wanted to get it done before the season started. I’m glad we got it done, and now I can go pitch.