Mark Haley
Mark Haley
damage flat guys minimize pitching
Those guys can flat out hit. Fortunately our pitching was able to minimize the damage from the errors.
ball count exactly fast happy nice supposed
This was a nice one for us to get today. I'm really happy for Manuel. He battled and battled to get the count to 2-0. He then got a fast ball and was able to take it the other way, which is exactly what you're supposed to do in that situation.
aggressive anyone base fault saw
Bonifacio saw the base wasn't covered, but you can't be that aggressive in the first inning. But I'll never fault anyone for being aggressive.
balls chased command good needed strike
We let him off the hook. He didn't have good command of the strike zone, and we needed to be more disciplined. We chased a lot of balls out of the strike zone.
good seen
We've seen them a lot, we know what they have. And they have good pitching. It'll be a battle.
bunt hit
That was his first bunt hit of the year.
balls changed hit kid speeds stayed
Give that kid credit, he stayed down and changed speeds a lot. We hit a lot of balls off the end of the bat.
He made an adjustment, that's what you have to in this game.
guy
He's a sinker-slider guy who can get you the strikeout when you need it.
adversity era jackson needed overcome player step struggled valuable win
Jackson has overcome a lot of adversity, and had struggled with his ERA this season. To win this championship we needed someone to step up like he did. He should be the most valuable player of this series.
ball bright bullpen few gave great spot strong
Just one or two pitches, and then things got out of hand. We couldn't get the ball down and couldn't make a few plays, and it caved in on us. It was all of a sudden, boom. It was a great 2-1 ball game, and then ... you've got to make pitches. And the bullpen has been a bright spot for us this season. They've been strong for us. They gave it up tonight, but they've been consistent.
curve
He had no feel for his curve ball.
broke coming eight fever guys seven
He got sick. He broke out in a fever so he had to come out of the game. We've got seven or eight guys coming down with the flu.
against athletes best key kid secrets shut step weapons
We don't have a lot of secrets left, so everybody's got to step up. I think we have enough weapons that they can't key on one kid to shut us down. It's pretty much my best athletes against your best athletes.