Casey Blake
Casey Blake
William Casey Blakeis a former Major League Baseball third baseman...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth23 August 1973
CityDes Moines, IA
against expect good great hanging nobody taking team three win
Nobody is hanging their head. You like to win every game, expect to win every game, but taking two of three against a great team is a good thing.
against ball caught front hit instead top
I was guarding against the ball in front of me instead of over my head. The way it hit my glove, I thought I caught it, but it hit the top of my glove or the front or something.
experience last team year
Last year was last year. We're going to be a better team for that experience.
half month
No one in here is going to panic. No one in here is discouraged. We've got a month and a half left.
bother city expect expected experience fans given good guys last nobody older situation win year
Expectations don't bother us, because we expect to win ourselves. Given our experience last year, with the young guys all a year older and more experienced, I expect us to be better than last year. It wouldn't be a good situation if nobody expected you to be able to win. But our fans and the city expect us to win, and so do we.
It was pretty dicey. If it had been colder, it would have been pretty miserable.
begin doubt far fortunate fret good guys impatient position realize season seems start
It's very psychological when you begin the season. It seems like guys are too impatient and don't realize how long the season is. You fret when you don't have to. You start to doubt yourself. I've been in that position one too many times. But so far I've been fortunate enough to have good at-bats.
guy locked momentum scoring
Not scoring in an inning like that can sometimes be a big momentum swinger. But when a guy is locked in like Scotty (Elarton) was, it doesn't matter.
against beat last played tough
It makes it tough because I know that we played well. We beat them. We played well against them last year.
lost momentum rough week
It's been a rough week ? we just lost our momentum somewhere,
hopefully instincts react stuff
It's just new stuff every night, ... I'll just have to react to it, and hopefully my instincts will take over.
definitely mind overcome satisfied weighed
It was definitely one of the most frustrating years of my career. It weighed on my mind a bit. But I was satisfied with the way I rebounded from it. I was able to overcome a lot of adversity.
circumstance expected last weird win
It was a weird set of circumstances. We expected to win today, we expected to win the whole last week.
bigger game pick plays tight west win
It was a tight game all around. (Arvada West was) the pick to win league, and we battled. We just made some bigger plays (Friday).