Travis Hafner
Travis Hafner
Travis Lee Hafneris an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a designated hitter and first baseman. A left-handed hitter, Hafner played for the Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians and New York Yankees. His nickname, "Pronk", was given to him by former teammate Bill Selby during spring training of 2001 when people sometimes referred to him as "The Project" and other times "Donkey" for the way he looked when running the bases. He has the most...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth3 June 1977
CityJamestown, ND
It's the part of baseball that (stinks). You can form some great friendships with teammates, and in an instant, they're gone.
It was frustrating. I kept waiting for the next day to feel better. After about 10 days, and I wasn't getting better, I started to get concerned. I finally got to the point where I knew it was going to take some time.
It was important for us to get some runs early and put last night (a 1-0 Tribe loss Wednesday) behind us, ... And the way C.C. has been pitching, if we get him some runs, we knew we'd be OK.
This is the kind of game that can get you pretty high for tomorrow or else be tough to come back from.
They're in first place and we're in second. Let's go out there and see who has the best team.
It's the same team out there, but the difference is before we'd get men on base and the merry-go-round started,
It's tough to tell with baseball. We've been playing pretty well and hopefully we can continue to win games. Hopefully, that series at the end of the year means something, it would be pretty exciting.
Probably in my dream we would have won all three. I was able to get in a pretty good groove and put some good swings on some pitches.
You stop and look where we were Tuesday, finishing with six games at home and playing the way we were playing, it was a great position to be in.
The last few years, we've gotten off to some slow starts. This season, there's been much more of an emphasis on getting off to a good start, and we had a good approach towards that today. I don't think you can ask for a better home opener.
All of the games right now are big, so I just hope we go out and score 10 runs off him.
All we want to do is win. If we win, we make up ground in the wild card and the division. All I care about is getting to the playoffs any way possible.
I've been streaky throughout my career, but I've been trying to become a more consistent hitter.
If you work hard, good things will happen. I will never be in a situation where if I fail I can look back and say, 'If I'd only worked harder.'