The sinker was just, at times it was good, and then we missed a few ... Like [Alex Rodriguez] and [Jose] Molina getting hit were just sinkers that just slipped out.
The sinker was just, at times it was good, and then we missed a few ... Like [Alex Rodriguez] and [Jose] Molina getting hit were just sinkers that just slipped out.
It's one of those things where the balls slipped out of the pitcher's hand and hit him ... And the balls weren't hard anyway. It was missing and barely got them. They know we never tried to hit anybody.
I don't think we questioned their intent, let alone our own ... We were just trying to get them out, and I don't doubt they were. I'd be willing to bet if you ask Mariano, he wasn't real happy about putting more people on base.
The ball wasn't cutting like it usually does, and then he drilled two guys just to make sure we tied the record ... He knew we were close. He just wanted to make sure he tied it. I've never seen that many guys hit in a ballgame. Nobody got warned and the game was still well-played, even with that happening.
Marmol and Wood combined for 198 strikeouts in 153 2/3 innings -- making them the only bullpen duo in baseball that averaged over 11 K's per nine innings apiece. Jonathan Papelbon-Justin Masterson isn't bad ... But it isn't that dominating.
When he made a mistake or two, they hit them a long way ... Adam Jones hit that ball all the way home and Millar did what he's been known to do from time to time. But then he made pitches and he was pretty good. You look up in the fifth and I think he had 51 pitches, and on a night when we needed to stay away from [Manny] Delcarmen and [Justin] Masterson, getting to where he got us was very helpful.
Pap, as effective as he was for us late in 2005, hadn't reached his ceiling yet. And Justin has some growing to do, even though we think he can help us out now ... Right now, we think (Masterson) profiles as someone who can really help our bullpen with perhaps a relatively brief adjustment period in the minors.
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