Russ Ortiz
Russ Ortiz
Russell Reid Ortizis a retired Major League baseball pitcher. Ortiz played for the Atlanta Braves, Arizona Diamondbacks, Baltimore Orioles, San Francisco Giants, Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers. He is 6 ft 1 intall, and weighs 220 pounds...
extend felt ready running sure trying
I was trying to extend my running to make sure I was ready and felt something, and that's kind of where we're at right now.
commit good half home last outing run walks
My changeup was better last outing. This outing it was half and half. My curveball was a lot better than it was the last outing. There are a lot of good things. The two walks and home run made it look worse. I am going to give up a run sometimes. If I commit myself to working to get ahead, we're going to be all right.
battle claimed everybody gone hard harp heart last pitcher type wants
I never claimed to be anything other than the type of pitcher that I am, which is to go out and battle as hard as I can to get a win. And it worked. Everybody wants to harp on last year, but I was gone for the heart of the year, hurt.
ball came fine five good knew last maybe nice plate six spot stretched throw trying
I knew it was my last inning, and when Helton came up, after about six pitches, I just wanted him to put the ball in play. I started trying to be too fine with pitches, and trying to throw the ball in a good spot over the plate that maybe he'd put in play. But it was good to be able to be stretched out like that. It was nice to get up and down five times.
guess hit mistakes seven time
I made seven mistakes today. I got hit hard. What are you going to do? I wasn't very happy, obviously, to put us in that situation, but at the same time I guess it could have been a lot worse.
best fight whatever
It just wasn't there, for whatever reason. I did the best I could to fight through it, but it just wasn't there at all.
guys noticed people special
There's not too many guys out there who do special things that are noticed around the league. And it has to be something special -- like real special -- for people to take notice,
build johnny pitches telling three
After the first three starts, I'm like, OK, now I have a feel for all my pitches so I was telling (catcher) Johnny (Estrada), let's use all three. I just want to build off this and try to get better as we go along.
battle best bullpen days fight five hoping leg location six threw whatever worries
After I threw my bullpen two days after that start, my leg was great. So there were no worries about that. My location just wasn't there at all today, for whatever reason. I'm doing the best I can to see if I can fight through it. After the first inning, I was hoping to just battle and give us five or six innings.
learned sat
After I sat down and thought about it, I learned a lot about the game, about myself.
pitches throw
The most important thing is that I'm able to throw all my pitches for strikes.
battle days today
The thing that's frustrating to me is sometimes I feel like there's going to be days when I have to battle and today wasn't one of those days.
explain seemed wish
I wish I could explain what happened. Nothing seemed to be where I wanted it and it was after Holliday's at-bat that it seemed to change.
bat fast noticed pitch recognize
One of the things I noticed was how fast he was able to put the bat on the ball. He could recognize the pitch well before he had to swing, and then he would get around so fast, so hard.