Roberto Hernandez
Roberto Hernandez
affects committed condition life puts stress
When you're an engineering student, you have a lot of stress in your life. For someone to live this way, with a condition that affects their life, for them to be committed to something and want to live life to the fullest, it really puts things in perspective.
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You don't have to consider anybody else. He's the best in the postseason. And he's very good, great, in the regular season. He is so consistent. And beats you and you know what's coming. They can't hit it. He just puts the cutter out there and says 'Here it is.' Is that the best pitch ever? It might be.
anybody beats best consider hit might pitch puts regular says
You don't have to consider anybody else, ... He's the best in the postseason. And he's very good, great, in the regular season. He is so consistent. And beats you and you know what's coming. They can't hit it. He just puts the cutter out there and says 'Here it is.' Is that the best pitch ever? It might be.
effort facing gets good played shouting understand won
The shouting is going to be up to the coaches, if it happens. But, when you lose, 3-0, 3-2, and you're facing a lot of good pitching, what are you going to say? We haven't won much, and I understand that gets magnified. But the effort is there consistently. Besides, this game's played on the field.
guys saw
And we didn't see everyone. The guys we saw were the ones who could get around or at least could be moved.
Everything is fine. The sentence, I would say, is not enough.
enjoying front game pennant
Right now, we have something right in front of us, ... Everybody's loose. Everybody's enjoying it. You play this game to be in a pennant race.
beat cause opponents pity trying
We can't feel pity for ourselves, cause the opponents don't. We're trying to beat them and they're trying to beat us.
continue dig holes hope last ourselves patient tracy turns
We can't continue to dig ourselves holes like this. You hope this turns around. Tracy is a patient man, but that's not going to last forever.
break days figure straight
We could have had a break here and there on that. But you can look at it this way: we have 17 straight days to figure this thing out.
blew loss
I blew it. If there's got to be a loss put on somebody, I'll take the loss.
batting bullpen miss missed practice throw
I didn't miss any bullpen sessions. I just missed batting practice. You can throw all of the bullpens you want, and it's just not the same.
best care doctors family last ok side sure trying
My dad's the last one from his side of the family, so I'm trying to make sure he's OK and that he has the best doctors around him. He'll be able to get a lot better care here than in the Dominican.
baseball beyond change difficult entire facing fortunate goes happen life might start understand wondering
It's very difficult when you start to understand you are facing a life-threatening situation. You don't know what's going happen. It goes beyond just wondering what's going to happen to your baseball career. You wonder how your entire life might change or if you're still going to be fortunate to have a life.