Anne Shaw Quotes

Obviously, he`s one of the best pitchers in the game,

That`s definitely the biggest home run of my life. For five minutes afterward, I didn`t know what I was doing. I was on a high for five minutes. I barely remember running around the bases. When I got in the dugout, I was being a maniac. Everybody probably thinks I`m crazy.

I didn`t come in here to planning to be the fifth outfielder. That wasn`t what I had in mind. ... I feel like every spring training I`ve had a shot to be a starting guy, so this is a little different for me -- and it`s well-deserved, because the last few years I haven`t put up the numbers I need to.

It`s funny how a 162-game season turns into a 29-game season now. It`s going to go right down to the wire. But there`s no doubt in my mind that we`re the better team.

Sometimes I`ll take a pitch right there, but with him, if he gets a strike, he`s coming back with that (nasty) slider of his, ... So I was sitting dead-red, and when I got the fastball, I capitalized on it. That was definitely the biggest home run I`ve ever hit. It was a very emotional home run.

It was a great series. We felt like we definitely had momentum going into it, but they came back and beat us twice,

It`s funny how a 162-game season turns into a 29-game season now. It`s going to go right down to the wire.

Sometimes that`s a case where you might take a pitch and see if he goes 3-0, but in that situation against a guy like that, you want to try to get a fastball. He threw a good pitch to hit and I was able to capitalize on it.

That`s just baseball. The way we came out today, you can`t explain it. A couple of hits went our way, and it turned into a big game for us.

It was one of those things -- when it got to be 2-0, I wanted to see a fastball and get a hack on it.