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
We're helpless now. There's nothing you can do. We just wait to see what happens. But we put ourselves in that position.
You'd like to play, but you can't play. It's like that for the other team. I don't really think it helps one team or the other.
Their record doesn't show it, but they've really got some guys who are starting to play well. The experience is going to help them. They've been playing together for a while, and they've got a lot of confidence, especially against us.
He seems not to be bothered by anything, and that will help him here. Obviously he's a great player. But he's not going to have any trouble adjusting to New York after being in Boston.
He throws a lot of strikes and he works quickly. So you can't get back on your heels behind him. That helps us out on defense.
You can't take anyone for granted. ... One good pitching performance and you're in trouble. It's good. We got a little help last night. Then we came out and we did what we needed to do today.
We wrapped up our division at the All-Star break,
We're familiar with them and they're familiar with us, so the best team over the next five games will win.
We have no excuses. We got all the breaks to get to this point. We had our chance.
We've won it before, and anything short of that is failure. You don't work the whole off-season, spring training and six months of games to finish second or third. If you don't win, you should feel it's a failure.
We know we can't rely on scoring all those runs. We know it's great to have some guys that are swinging the bats well, and we're going to score. But it's not going to happen all season.
Wakefield was probably as good as I've seen him. His ball was moving all over the place. We could have been out there for another three hours and I don't think we'd have gotten any more hits off him.
This will not be Bernie Williams' last game in Yankee Stadium.
I always try to take from past performances. You never try to get too high or too low. Just play every game, just treat every game like it's the same.