Geoff Blum Quotations

He's got the right mentality to be that guy to stop a streak like this one. Whether he knows it or not, we put a lot on him, and he went out and delivered.

I was just looking for a ball in the zone. It took me a good two weeks to figure it out but I'm glad I did. Fortunately the 14th inning was good to me in the past and it was good for me tonight.

You keep seeing names getting marked off and marked off the lineup card and eventually it gets down to the last guy on the totem pole. I was near the bottom. We were running out of bodies on the bench. It came down to the last man standing.

You look back at the last 150 years of baseball and you can probably count on one hand how many times that play has worked. So you can call it luck, you can call it savvy, you can call it whatever you want.

Those are golden opportunities. A strikeout right there would have been better than what I did.

Who wouldn't want to play for the defending world champions?

We've all played this game and had our hearts broken. I can only imagine what it feels like at this level.

You heard things, and everyone has reputations and they might have rubbed some people the wrong way. Everyone has their own quirks, but you want to play with a guy who's competitive and will do what it takes to win games. He's definitely one of those guys.

Bags and Biggio. Anybody who stays with one team that long and puts that kind of investment into a city deserves to represent that city and that team in the World Series.

That's helping me keep my sanity, knowing I faced decent pitchers.

Tenacity. We're great guys in the clubhouse, but when the game starts we turn into a bunch of angry individuals.

The way we win ballgames over here is to score just enough runs to stay ahead of the other team and beat them.

This game is very humbling. To go the first two weeks without a hit. The guys had a good time, keeping things loose and I deserved to get that first hit ball. Hopefully it's one of many more to come.

You sit around for 14 innings and something like that happens. I didn't know if I got it high enough.

The ball beat me by about two steps as I was going down to slide. I took a chance, hesitated a little bit. Fortunately, (Rodriguez) went for a swipe tag and that let me get in there.

I didn't know if I got it high enough. Somebody was watching out for me.

The brutal honesty that he brings to the game and to the clubhouse is why we play so hard. He's going to tell you when you're doing great, and he's going to tell you when you screwed up and did something wrong. He's intense. He's passionate. I don't think anything changed from the days when he was a player. That's a huge bonus for us. He's as animated on the field as he is off. Guys feed off that energy that he has.

A.J. fits that whole line about judging a book by its cover. You look on the outside and see some of the things he's doing on the field that maybe you don't think are appropriate. But once you get to know him, he's a fierce competitor and, at times, maybe not your best qualities come out when you're trying to win.

It's the stuff dreams are made of. If you imagined a dream, that's it.

He can keep it now. As long as we keep going like this, we'll be all right. If we'd lost the first two games, I would've kicked him out.