Dustin Hermanson
Dustin Hermanson
Dustin Michael Hermansonis an American former right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth21 December 1972
accept best fix helped matters seen staff starting team
You've got to accept it. You don't fix what's not broken. This is the best starting staff I've seen for a whole year. I do know I helped the team get here and that's all that really matters to me.
accept keeping staff starting winning
You got to accept it. When you're winning games, you got to keep doing what's been winning and that was keeping the starting staff there.
greatest leaps
That was one of the greatest leaps I ever had,
care help lead ninth protect time trying
Obviously, every time we have a lead in the ninth inning I want to be in there. I think they are trying to help me, not overuse me. I think they're doing the right thing, trying to take care of me, trying to protect me.
bad game guess
One bad pitch. It's discouraging. I guess sometimes it's going to happen. But unfortunately it was a big game for us.
music needed pumped
I'm already pumped up. If I needed music to do that, I'd be in trouble.
articles choking reading
We've been reading articles about us choking all year,
days felt few heart percent physical pitch pitching rest tough trying
I've had a few days off, so it felt a little better than normal, ... I'll be pitching at 85 percent for the rest of the year, and I have been for a while. So, I'm just trying to go out there. Heart will get you through tough physical times, and I'm trying to pitch in my heart with more than anything else right now.
It's been a long time, but it doesn't matter,
demand giving hard jersey known nobody plugging ripped since teams until
Well, nobody has ripped my jersey off of my back yet. Until they demand it back from me, I'm not giving it back. I'm just going to keep trying. That's all I know. That's all I've known since I was little. Keep working hard and plugging away until all 30 teams say they don't want you.
best halfway league pitching proves starters year
This is one of the best pitching staffs in the league this year and that halfway proves it. How many starters did we have who had 200-plus innings?
giving swallow tough
I'm not giving up hope. It has been tough to swallow lately.
series
The first series we didn't have a whole lot of opportunities.
acting guys hoping kids lately papers pressure putting reading seems team
I'm just hoping guys aren't reading the papers and guys are acting like kids and having fun. It seems like when this team is having fun, it's when we play the best. We haven't been doing that lately because guys have been putting pressure on themselves.