Ted Lilly
Ted Lilly
Theodore Roosevelt "Ted" Lilly IIIis an American former professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball. Lilly attended Yosemite High School in Oakhurst, California, and Fresno City College. He played in MLB for the Montreal Expos, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Toronto Blue Jays, Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth4 January 1976
camp coming group nice rest spring training
It's nice coming into camp and being able to do the things the rest of the group is doing. I don't want to have to play catch-up in Spring Training again.
A lot of times, they feel that pressure.
felt last pitch toughest trying year
No question, it was a trying year. Mentally, it was the toughest year of my career. I always felt like I could find a way to pitch myself out of a hole, and last year, I don't feel like I ever did that.
against ball club days gave mean potent ran team three threw throwing today tough year york
Every year, they're going to have a pretty potent lineup. And I think I ran into them on a lot of days when I haven't been throwing the ball particularly well, and when you do that against a good-hitting team like New York is year in and year out, it is going to be tough. Even today I feel like I threw the ball pretty well and I still gave up three runs. I mean it's just a tough club to really go out there and control.
chances conscious definitely last normal springs sure worry
I definitely was more conscious of making sure I didn't take any chances on doing something that would set me back. I think the last two springs were kind of fluke-ish. At the same time, I'm more conscious of it, but I don't want to worry about it so much that I don't live a normal life.
hung main results won
I'd still like better results than there were (yesterday) but the main thing is we hung on and we won and that's nice,
nice pitch
It was nice to go out there and feel completely healthy, to pitch decently,
injure main mound time
The main thing is, it's not something that I can injure any further. I'd like to get on the mound one more time before Saturday.
good hitters pitch
You can't pitch around them every time. They're not the only two good hitters in their lineup.