“[The righthander was shaken afterward but not before, he insisted.] I probably haven't faced a lineup like theirs. ... To me, I'm not scared of anybody. They're baseball players just like I am. They put their uni on the same way I do. It's about executing. Today I didn't execute. There's no other excuse for it.”
“I knew coming in it was either going to be one of those days where I struggled, and I was going to have to sit out there and eat up innings or I was going to pitch good,”
“All I could say was, `Wow,' ... It's one thing to stand here and say, `Everybody's got to step up,' but it's another thing to do it. These guys did it. ... Every pitch, every at-bat, every ball that's hit is important. It's not hard to get into the flow and realize these are the playoffs now.”
