Roy Oswalt Quotes

People don't see what we see. His leadership is something you can't replace. It's like a brother leaving a team.

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Brad is the type of closer who has amnesia. He won't think about it the next time he gets out there.

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With him, you can make a pretty good pitch away or make a pretty good pitch in and he'll hit it out to either left or right field. You've got to respect that he can hit the ball out of the park, but you can't be afraid of him, for sure.

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I grew up in a small town where you know everyone, ... I've been told all my life that I come from too small a town to compete with some of the guys that competed in a higher level growing up. And that kind of drove me through college and drove me in the minor leagues, because I got to face all those big 5-A school district guys in the minors.

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I thought we had good chances. I always thought we had a good chance when I was pitching and it was 4-0.

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They're not a bad team, ... Any time you go play them, they'll play you hard. It doesn't matter if they're in the race or out of the race.

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I thought the way the team was battling and we had been seeing Maddux pretty well, if we could get something going with a hit or get somebody on, I had a good feeling we'd come back.

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We kidded him the whole time on the plane, ... We told him we almost got hit by the ball when it took off.

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Tonight it actually felt to me like I was throwing darts at different locations in the strike zone, ... A lot of times when you get long (in the motion), you kind of sling the ball in there instead of just throwing it.

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I felt OK. My command was pretty good. That's the way it goes.

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Brad, he's the type of closer that has amnesia, he won't thinking nothing about it next time he gets out there. He'll come out at the end of the next game, and I'm sure he'll be lights-out just like he always is.

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I'm sure he didn't sleep too well Monday night.

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It's just a matter of feel. After the first inning the other night as far as location, it got better as I went on. That first inning, I didn't know if I loosened up enough in the bullpen or what.

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Going into the second or third inning, I knew it was going to be a battle all night. I just never got in a rhythm. It was one of those battling games.

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My stuff's a little better than it was last year. Last year I was focused on getting another pitch going, a split, and I worked on that more than I worked on my basic stuff, so I kind of lost my feel for it the first two games of the season.

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But I like challenges. I always have. I've always been a guy who likes big games. All the way from high school or Little League or the minors, I always liked big games.

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It was good to get the sweep. Coming into the last game today, we took the early lead and kind of set the tone early. Having the runs early gives you a little breathing room.

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Eventually, it's going to come to an end, if you play long enough. I didn't really have a breaking pitch the whole night. I had to pitch with the fastball, and I didn't really get it where I wanted to, either. So it could have been easily a lot worse.

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The biggest key of the night was keeping my pitch count down to get into the eighth. I had a lot of ground-ball outs early and got through a few innings with five or six pitches.

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Everyone knows I don't try to walk anybody.

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It's a place where no one really cares what you do, ... You can be a ballplayer. We have a lot of guys that just have regular jobs. Everyone is treated the same, that's the reason I like going home. I can go to a Weir football game and everyone comes up and speaks to me just because they haven't seen me in awhile. They don't come up and speak to me because I was on TV the night before. That's why I like going home.

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This stadium has a lot of baseball memories in it, and to come back here and pitch in this stadium before it's gone is great. Hopefully the biggest thing with us is to get going early, get in a groove early and hopefully get some momentum going our way.

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Growing up, people used to come by and ask why he spent (so) much time with me out in the yard throwing the ball. Hopefully those guys see that on TV today.

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We kidded with him the whole time on the plane today. We actually told him we almost got hit by the ball when it took off, ... The mood on the plane was actually pretty cool.

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He's been doing a good job all year. They told him last week they're going to use him more and more down the stretch. He's up for it. He can throw two innings at a time. He did a good job tonight, especially the pickoff in the ninth inning.

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