This is the best I`ve felt in terms of hitting the ball hard. Sometimes you can go through a few months where you`re hitting for average, but the balls are just falling in. I feel I`m hitting it hard. Most of it was just correcting some flaws in my swing.
It`s tough to score a lot of runs off of Pedro, ... We did tonight, more so later. The thing is, Pedro`s going to make mistakes. He knows how to pitch and you don`t know what your going to get.
I feel confident that I can get hits in that situation, because I`ve been swinging the bat well for a while. It`s frustrating.
I thought we had no shot,
I felt a twinge when I did it, so I came of the game and didn`t want to (mess) with it, ... I`ve been taking my drugs and I feel a little better.
I`m just glad Pratt had the bat. It`s made the consistency of my swings a little better. My swings are not quite as long now.
An incredibly lucky turn of events.
He makes mistakes early in the count. I took advantage of a mistake. He threw a fastball down the middle when he just tried to get ahead. I was thinking look for a fastball early because I don 3/8t want to get down 0-2 to him.
I was setting up over the plate and calling two-seamers, and saying, `Go ahead, hit this movement. And there was a lot of movement,` ... We had a game plan before the game, but we used more two-seamers because of how well it was moving.
Obviously, Houston`s schedule is easier. But I still believe anyone can beat anyone, so they can lose some games. Milwaukee`s played pretty good baseball all year. Anything can happen.