I talked to him for 10 minutes. He was alert and knew what was going on. He knew about our comeback win on Friday night and knew what I had done. He knew we had won yesterday and was well aware of all the situations.
You like to win the game but there's something about the squeeze play. It's do or die. I get more opportunity to do that, too.
That was one time that I was not going to take the extra base. If it was earlier in the game, I probably was going to take the extra base. You've got to give your best guy the opportunity to win the game.
What they've gone through, it puts a lot of things in perspective and that perspective will help you handle the situations in that you know win or lose, life is still going to go on,
That's when we really knew we could beat the best. That woke up everything for us. Confidence doesn't show up in the box score, but it's so important. After that, we knew we could win it all.
I'll take my chances, win or lose, ... It's a calming feeling to be up at the plate at that time.
We expected to win. I didn't even pack anything (Wednesday) or make any plans for getting home because I thought we would win tonight.