Derek Jeter
Derek Jeter
Derek Sanderson Jeteris an American former professional baseball shortstop who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseballfor the New York Yankees. A five-time World Series champion, Jeter is regarded as a central figure of the Yankees' success of the late 1990s and early 2000s for his hitting, baserunning, fielding, and leadership. He is the Yankees' all-time career leader in hits, doubles, games played, stolen bases, times on base, plate appearancesand at bats. His accolades include 14 All-Star selections, five Gold...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth26 June 1974
CityPequannock, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
I thought he would try to get ahead with a fastball. I was just trying to hit the ball hard.
We never talked about it, never had to challenge ourselves any more than usual. We wanted to play well and win. We felt we had the best team, so every time we played, we thought we should win.
We need to win one game. That's the only way we can look at it right now.
We get a lot of people here. It's always been that way. It seems like every year we get a big-name guy: Clemens, Knoblauch, Matsui, Alex, Jason, Johnny, Randy. So it's really nothing new for us.
We had chances, we had opportunities to score and we couldn't come up with hits. You can't give teams extra outs.
We haven't accomplished anything. Last I checked, you don't win anything with (11) games left.
Those are situations you have to come through. Because two-out hits are pretty clutch.
Those are situations we need to come through in. Those are big. This time of year, especially, you've got to take advantage.
The Angels are playing as well as any team in baseball. I think it's what people are expecting for it to come down to, the Yankees and Red Sox, but we have our work cut out for both of us.
We've faced him 100 times playing with Baltimore. He's always been pretty tough. He knows how to pitch. He mixes it up.
We hadn't seen him before, but he mixed it up pretty well. He was teasing the strike zone. He'd throw some borderline pitches up and then change it on us. We really couldn't get anything going.
From playing with him, if you don't capitalize on him early he gets stronger. You hope it doesn't come back to haunt you, but looking at it now we wished we could have gotten a couple more runs there. But he made good pitches and he got out of the inning and then we had opportunities later in the game and didn't do anything with it.
From what I understand he never mentioned my name. My name was brought into it, but it never came out of his mouth.
I enjoyed it. I would recommend it to anyone who had the chance to play. It was a good experience besides the results.