That's great. As you've been the
last couple of months Carlos, just so that he thought
he saw an even greater intensity from you
today. Did you feel any different out there today? No I mean I felt just consistent and I'll goes by the strike zone and kind of lost their and seventh.
But, you know, we had to dig deep into get those outs and that was huge, you know, it's great. That you let me go out there and finish off the
evening. But yeah, we definitely grind
through that seven for me. That's some good results. When you're going up against a
guy like crochet, I know it's, you know, it's still you doing your thing against
their lineup, but is there a different level? When you see
what he's doing, you guys are kind of going back and forth
there early on. Yeah, I mean, obviously, he's
one of the best pitchers in the game, super
young, and very talented and, you know, it's a, you know,
Frankie did off him is pretty incredible. Yeah. All those matchups. You
can to look forward to and just really fun to be a part of Ton of singers like even more
than normal especially early was that just a throat until
they show. They can hit it sort of thing. Yep, pretty much. You know, it's basically that
and the slider sweeper and we got some good results. Some early contact and early outs and just kept going to get back home and evaluate this
trip. Overall I thought was great you know we
played some really good teams It was a long road trip and definitely to be back home but yeah. Overall will take I think
173 or something like that and definitely set ourselves up for a good run here. And yeah I thought it was great. With that Sinker grants from
this incredible point, was that established for you that you're
going to go do that heavy on that pitch. I think it was just you know we
just kept throwing until you know they were going to do some with it
and then start mixing them everything else. So yeah, we just we just kept their
own it and get some results with the adjustment that
you made against crochet. Not really all I thought was put
the ball in play. It was either. I hit my shin again, I put the
ball in play. So yeah, he was he was extremely tough. Today he executed his pitches very well.
He threw first first strikeout in first at bat he threw me in
99 mph. Fastball that cut as much
as any other cutter or slider. He's got so after that I was like I got I
gotta keep my eyes on the basement and
put the ball in play, Carlos was very impressed. Just
with the way, you guys, kept the intensity up this weekend
against a lesser team. After playing two
couple very good teams, how did you guys manage to stay
focused on what could have been an easy weekend to not? You just got to stay with each other and
compete. And don't let the outside noise
or whatever is happening around us affect us. Everybody knew
that we had a task. In front of us and we have
to take care of business. You know, it was you we went day
by day their patients staff. They good, you know, it's just
whenever they made mistakes. We capitalize on it and we stay within ourselves. Nobody
was trying to do too much and you seemed like
everybody every day. Was somebody different, you know. So hats off to the guys. They're
there every year, everybody. Everyone of us came out this
week and this weekend and gave everything we had. So we can I
enjoyed Today. And soon as we land in
New York to see our families, spend some time with them, miss
my wife, my daughters and focus on whoever we have
tomorrow. You think of the way the Mana
is. I mean not just today but
overall stepped up and yeah, it's been amazing. It's been
amazing to see how he has worked on his plans approach and
he has executed, you know, he seems like he's getting
better as the year goes on. Which is a good thing because a really good thing. So I'm happy with how he's doing
it. You know, I'm not impressed because I face them before and
it's not fun to hit against them and he said, extremely big
competitor and he works hard and he prepares and he's he's he's ready to go out there day
in and day out. And give us the best chance to
win after going seven and three on
the road trip. How good do you guys
feel kind of spa? Not using your hand. I mean we're in a good spot. The
is we were in the same spot that we were
before the road trip. You know. It said in a position that we
still got a chance for playoffs and we got to continue to climb
the mountain to let it continue to push. We got to stay within yourself and not let the outside noise
get to us. We got to focus on what we have
here protected and compete and I we got to play good baseball.
We want to be where we want to be and accomplish the goal that
we all have. We got to play good baseball. We have to, you know, There's no it's not a bad team
that goes into the playoffs, you know, that's why we play 162
games so we just got to go continue to
stay within ourselves and do what we can do to to win
games from doing that.