Dave Roberts
Dave Roberts
Outfielder with incredible raw speed and base-stealing skills, he was a member of the 2004 Boston Red Sox won the World Series.
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth31 May 1972
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This was a very big game for us. We don't want to scoreboard watch too much, but we knew the Giants had won (in Washington). Jake is our staff ace, and he is our stopper. When he takes the mound, we expect to win baseball games.
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Now, we can have some swagger in these late-inning games because we have done it before. We have a reference point.
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Obviously, it makes it a lot more interesting. You've got the best player, possibly, who's ever played this game back to a team that's been playing well.
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Regardless of what our record is, the goal is to make the playoffs. If you win 100 games and you don't get to the postseason, what good is it? I guarantee you every single team that wins more games than us this year would like to be in our position.
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He was all-square stood on the 18th, then finished with a par to win his game and halve the match overall.
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He knows the game inside out. If you talk to guys in their clubhouse, they all respect him as a man and as a manager.
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When you win a game in dramatic fashion, it kind of re-energizes you,
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I'm going to try to get to the game tonight,
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I wanted to bring energy out of the gate. After a game like yesterday, you don't want it to snowball. I think that was big for Jake.
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For them, this was a huge win. We just have to focus on the next game and take one game at a time.
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You've got the best player, possibly, who's ever played this game back to a team that's been playing well. It's one of those things where you try not to get too down on yourself as an organization because we could have put them away.
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With everything he has been through this year, for Sean to rise to the occasion like that, it says a lot about his character.
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trying to get guys to understand that you have to work the count, you have to swing at strikes, do all those kinds of things good teams do on the offensive end. But they just haven't been able to do it.
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We expected to win this division, we said it from day one, and we want to go far in the playoffs. We're worried about ourselves playing better baseball because if we don't, we're not going to fare too well in the post-season.