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October 14, 2007
On whether it's difficult to rebound from such a defeat
It's not difficult to rebiund from, not given the makeup of this team. You know, as far as how anyone feels, there's no that should feel bad in that clubhouse except me. Everything about this one falls on me.
The way [Fausto Carmona] was throwing early in the game and the way we were hitting and our at-bats, you know we were going to grind it out on him or we were going to run him out of the game early. We put together a great inning [in the third], take a lead, and up to the [Jhonny] Peralta at-bat [a three-run homer in the fourth] I still had it in and I let it get away.
Next thing, unfortunately our bullpen in those situations, it's bordering on minimal. Fifth inning you're asking your bullpen to come in and throw zeroes against that team for however long it was going to take, and that's just not fair to them. This was all about me coming up small in a big game.
On whether he wanted a shut-down inning in the fourth
I felt that all night. I think we would have won the game [if] I go out there [in the fourth] and put up a zero. I'm not taking anything away from [the Indians] because they won this game. The home run that Jhonny hit is going to be one that I'll wonder about forever, simply because based on what -- our history, what we did to them yesterday, what we did to them the first at-bat, I went to the pitch I wanted to go to, I threw the pitch I wanted to throw, I hit my spot, and he hit a home run. I'm not used to that one.
He put a great swing on a pitch. I thought it was the right pitch; obviously, it wasn't. It's a 3-1 homer because obviously the guys ahead of him -- 0-2 to Garko, I try to throw a high fastball and then Victor hits a groundball and finds a hole.
But it was a game, had I executed, we should have won. We should have won, and they took it from me, which eventually meant they took it from us.
Posted by Joe McDonald 
at 3:07 PM | Permalink
