Aaron Cook
Aaron Cook
carries dead four games heading hopefully last might nice pitches
My last two games before this one were a little rough. I might have had a little dead arm. I'm not sure. I really had all four pitches working. It was nice to get that going heading into the season. Hopefully it carries over.
answer call happy situation talk
I know the situation and would be happy to talk with him, but I'm not going to call him out of the blue. If he has questions, I'd be happy to answer them.
coming finding pieces puzzle together
Everybody's finding their roles. It's like the pieces of the puzzle are coming together for us.
compete doctors knew matter nine time
Once the doctors told me I was healthy, I knew it was just a matter of time before I was able to get back out there and compete for nine innings. I knew I would be back.
five hat kinda pitching tip tough work
I kinda made it tough on them, pitching only five innings. I tip my hat to them, they had to do a lot of work tonight.
compete learned needed pitch slower strikes throw velocity
I learned how to pitch better and how to compete better. I had a little slower velocity and learned how to throw my change-up for strikes when I needed to. That was a big help. It was something that I needed to go through.
bad ball build cost couple felt key next overall
I made a couple of bad pitches, got the ball up and cost us a couple of key runs, but overall I felt pretty good, felt strong. Hopefully, I can take this, build off of it and take this to the next game.
bad build couple
I made a couple bad pitches, but I'll take this and build off it.
baseball key pitches rather ugly win winners-and-winning
I made some pitches I shouldn't make, but I got out of some situations. The key thing is winning. I'd rather have an ugly win than a well-pitched loss.
feeling fight normally onto prepare ready spring training
I'm able to use this spring training to really prepare for the season, where normally I'd have to come in and fight for a spot. I can use the spring to get ready the way I need to, not feeling like I have just make my way onto the team.
chemistry
We got the chemistry thing going. Now, we're on a roll.
guys hard history learned lessons playing worried
We've got 25 guys who aren't worried about history, just playing hard. We've got 25 guys who have learned some lessons the hard way.
balls both errors exact explain eye harder hit last maybe percent plays spot spring took training work
Both of the errors hit on the exact same spot on my glove, right on my thumb. We work on that every day in spring training and we get balls hit a lot harder than those two were. The only way I can explain it is that maybe I took my eye off it at the last second, because those plays should be made 100 percent of the time.
best gave home mad win
Today, my best wasn't enough to win the game. At the end of the day, you're not saying, 'I went out there and battled and only gave up one run.' I'm mad at myself that I gave up the home run.