Curt Schilling
Curt Schilling
Curtis Montague Schillingis an American former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher, former video game developer, and former baseball color analyst. He helped lead the Philadelphia Phillies to the World Series in 1993, and won championships in 2001 with the Arizona Diamondbacks and in 2004 and 2007 with the Boston Red Sox. Schilling retired with a career postseason record of 11–2, and his .846 postseason winning percentage is a major-league record among pitchers with at least ten decisions. He is a...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth14 November 1966
CountryUnited States of America
I don't have an explanation for it. I just know the first three innings, I was pitching. We had a game plan and I was moving the ball, making my pitches. Then all of a sudden, I could feel it. When I threw a couple pitches in the fourth inning, I knew I had something extra on them.
I felt good. I know I gave up four runs, but I feel like I did some good things.
I hung four splits in the first two innings, and every one of them ended up with green paint on it,
In the fifth inning I thought I got more comfortable. I didn't throw my first split until the ninth hitter of the game, which is not something that happens to me a lot. I only think I threw three in the first four innings. A lot of that was confidence. I didn't feel real comfortable with it.
I know there are a lot of people that don't want to hear it, but when I look back on it, stuff-wise, that's every bit as good as I threw the ball last year from a pure physical standpoint, ... Every time I needed to reach back, I felt like I did and had something extra on the ball. I had all four of my pitches. I just didn't pitch well. I'm not used to that. I'm not used to feeling that good and not pitching well. That was kind of odd for me.
I'm just kind of settling back into what I did before, ... Having not started a game in what, four months, you don't forget how to do it, but there are little things that go with the day and the game that you try to settle yourself back into and get comfortable with.
That's probably my No. 1 question all spring, where that (velocity) is. In the past, it's always been that what you have in March, you add three or four (mph) in April.
Without David, we don't make the postseason. David made an enormous impact on this team, and you can't understate his impact in the clubhouse, ... Congratulations to Alex. Either one of them could have won it. Both had MVP years.
We just weren't good enough to win again,
In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.
You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.
The bigger the game the better. I'm an adrenaline junkie. I feed off big crowds and noise.
One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from every issue and I had this huge montage of thousands of pictures.
The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.