Matt Holliday
Matt Holliday
Matthew Thomas "Matt" Hollidayis an American professional baseball left fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball. A World Series champion in 2011, Holliday is regarded as a key figure of the Cardinals' success of the 2010s and of the Colorado Rockies' in 2007 for hitting, baserunning and leadership abilities. As of 2016, he has totaled nearly 2,000 hits and 300 home runs, and more than 400 doubles, 1,000 runs scored, 1,000 runs batted in, 100 stolen bases,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth15 January 1980
CityStillwater, OK
CountryUnited States of America
We're going out and playing relaxed. Getting some early momentum on the road is good for confidence, too. We're confident on the road.
It's more gratifying to do things that help the team win. Personally it feels good, but at the same time it's a team game. To be able to do your job is gratifying. To be able to do things to help the team win is gratifying. I was able to do that tonight.
It was business as usual. Obviously we miss them. They're great players. But we still have to come out and do our jobs.
It was important for us to win. You send the fans away with a couple wins and there were big crowds with the series against the Giants. You hope that brings them back and establishes some momentum against the Giants, who we play a whole bunch more times.
They put him out there; I didn't put him out there, ... They count the same to me.
I've been working on timing and getting my hands in the right position, just trying to get that feel back. It's hard to explain. You can do it in batting practice and you can do it in the cage, but to get in the game and to be able to settle your nerves a little bit and get in that mode when you can still get your swing off when the velocity picks up and you start facing off-speed pitches. I'm trying to find that rhythm, that timing.
I understand I'm a sinner. I'm not perfect, and I need a Savior, and that I'm not going to make it to Heaven on merits and doing good things.
Ortiz left a fastball up and away from me. I worked the count to 3-2 to see some more pitches and finally got one I could handle and drive.
No problem for me. I've got nothing to hide. That's the second time for me (including an MLB test), so I'm used to it.
Most of us are pretty good friends and we've played together a lot, so I think if anybody goes through ups and downs or needs advice, or needs just a friend to talk to, I feel like I can be that guy for them,
Personally, it felt good, but this is a team. It's a team game and to do your job is gratifying, to do things to help your team win is gratifying and I was able to do that tonight.
We're at that level of knowing we can play here and play well at this level. You hate to get really excited ...
It hit a pole at the bottom of the fence and shot toward center field. You can't anticipate anything like that happening.
He's a good pitcher, ... But you always feel like you have a good chance against the guy. He's not overpowering. He has to pitch to get outs, and he lost his command a little bit in that one inning.