Can you talk about how great it
was did that homework, but now when
you that you have two hits and the second half has yeah, no definitely felt too
good to help out tonight, you know, and that's all I want
to do is help us win try and get in the playoffs so that we can you know, give
our shot and see if we can be that hot team and make our run.
So, you know, it felt good. We've been working hard and I don't know maybe maybe I got
some of those demons out of me, you know with Being sick
yesterday, so I don't know but it felt good to
help out tonight. No, no, I mean tomorrow nobody
cares. So we've got to go out and try and
win tomorrow and you know, but it's a good step in the
right direction and you know people keep working how
important was it to answer back after they taken the lead
in the top of that. Yeah. No, that's definitely kind of a rule of thumb in
baseball. You know, when you go out you go
put up some runs you want to have a shutdown inning. So for
us to be able to come out and put some more runs up against
them and have a big inning. That was really important. And so, you know, obviously really
really proud of the guys and the fight that they had denied
the offense was clicking in that five-year period my endings
like you had tonight that long any punctuated by
Homer was your home run the snack. Did it remind you of the stretch you guys were having
on the offense was clicking. Yeah, for sure. I
mean, you know, I think that hitting is something that's very very hard to do and you're going to go through
ups and downs with it. And so right now, you know when
you have a longer line Up, obviously, there's less
mistakes, you know to make and so the more guys that are swinging
the bat. Well the better and so, you know, I think you know, what I would hope is
that we're coming into a stretch where we swing the
bats really well and we have a
few guys doing it and you know, when
you have more than one guy doing it then you know, you can
you can do some damage. So, you know, we're will build on
tonight. We'll take it one game at a time. But I definitely
definitely think it's a right step step. So I'm sorry definitely think it's a step in
the right direction. Started this game started the final
quarter of the season. They starting to feel more urgent
each game. I mean every game is important, you know, ultimately, you know,
I've been a part to me Seasons that you know, it's come down to
one game at the end. So it doesn't matter whether it's the
game in April or whether it's the game in September, you know, they're all important.
So tomorrow we come in. We you
know, we try and go 1 and 0 and that's our mindset right now is
we're trying to just win every pitch and just break it down to
this to smallest things possible so that We're taking
care of the little things during the slump. What's been
your comfort level in the batter's box and have you
noticed a shift today? Yeah. I've been very open about it.
You know, I'm not doing very well and you know, obviously the
worst you do the lesson was comfortable you feel and so but you know today today's step
in the right direction, you know, we're working we're
working every single day to try and to try and get better and
try and you know be better in in the
game. So, you know, we'll continue to do
that and it's a good step in the
right direction. Yeah, I mean we're I'm getting
there, you know, you know, I don't know if I'd
say 100% but but I'm getting there and you know, we'll we'll bounce back and be ready
to go tomorrow kind of sense to maybe a little
bit better rhythm. Is that something that that's good? You know II just we're working
on things in the cage. And you know, I'm like I said, you
know my hitting coaches Chava. Me and Jeremy or you know
racking their brains the the analytics side the biomechanics side Sports Science
whole the whole thing. We're all you know all hands on
deck on this and trying to find things so, you know, definitely we had
better results today and that's great. But you know, usually the
results come after the process and so we'll continue to work on
the process. You've been teammates with Jeff and he's in that stretch now he's what Faster Fred is what do you
think of this was the biggest difference a in
the second half for him? Yeah, you know, I think he went back
to some cues that he had, you know, he was batting champion.
And and you know, I think he's just
kind of getting a little more confidence. He's had a few, you
know games of success and building on that and you know
confidence can do a lot in this game, especially hitting so I think he you know, he kind of
built on that and now he has confidence. That's when he goes
up to the plate that he can do what he wants to do.
And so, you know really proud of him for you know, obviously having a
tough first half and and and not giving into that and you
know, I'm very happy that he's doing well Sean Carlos mentioned The
Change-Up as being the key pitch in his mind for you
tonight. I know that you've gone away from that a little bit
lately why tonight was it so prominent? I mean, they fourth inning they
kind of rocks and fastballs and did some damage on that. So kind
of had to Pivot from the original game plan. And so he's my changeup and Martha the better felt. So I was really happy about that. Carlos also told us that prior
to the seventh inning. He said he's going to he's going to push
it a little bit out there with you when you go out and you
know your pitch counts close to 100 but manager tells you that you're going to have a little
bit of Runway. Does that alter it? All the mindset are how you
go about things knowing that you'll probably get that inning. I mean like the last inning strike him down. Six, I'd definitely one of the ball and
you know, my mind is kind of going to empty the tank and give
it everything we got so it's kind of what I was doing
from there from the 6 on and everything. Be able to have a good outing in front of
the home crowd is just started the last quarter of
the season the games feeling more urgent now. sort of I mean the only day we
can only do what we can control and when
our when the games we can play and learn that it's kind of up for grabs. So we just kind of
continue what we're doing. And what's a moment John you've gone seven Innings.
Now three of your last four starts, especially in this day
and age is there certain level of pride in pushing them to that point and given the team consistent length
like that. You know, I'm just trying to help this team win and you know, if that's sometimes only for five innings
or seven Innings great, so physically good seven. But yeah, just trying to help the
team and wagon.