Braden Looper
Braden Looper
Braden LaVerne Looperis a former Major League Baseball pitcher...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth28 October 1974
CityWeatherford, OK
almost blame exact
As a closer, you never like to get pulled. But it's the manager's call, and he almost made the exact right call. How could you blame him?
blame definitely hold
You definitely get the blame because the game's won, ... I hold myself accountable.
bad stunk
I stunk it up. I feel bad for Glav, I feel bad for the team. It's over. There's nothing I can do about it now.
cardinals career drafted envisioned playing upset
I was upset then. I was pretty naive. The Cardinals drafted me, and I envisioned playing my whole career there. I didn't know how long I would be in Florida.
along bad ball base felt game ground hit kept needed spring themselves throw took work
You get to throw pitches. That's what I needed to do - get in a game. I've said all along that things will work themselves out. I know where I'll be. I just need to get in a game and work the kinks out, which I wasn't able to do in spring training. I felt good, kept the ball down and got ground balls. Even the base hit was a ground ball. It just hit a boulder and took a bad hop. I felt good.
anybody best hope knows
I don't think anybody in here really knows what is going on so I don't want to speculate. We hope the best for him and hope everything is OK.
great win
Glav pitched a great game, should have had the win today,
game great won
Glavine pitched a great game and he should have won it, ... I stunk.
came focus focused game ground guys kicking spring three
I get in a (Grapefruit League) game and I don't focus like I did today. It was spring training. When you're in a game, you're focused and it's like kicking it to a different level. I'll take three ground balls. That's what I told you guys when I came here.
ball best feeling felt good great matter mound since throwing
I feel great physically, which is why (this stinks) because I've battled so long to get to feeling good. It's the best I've felt on the mound since 2004. ... It's just a matter of getting back to what I'm good at - that's throwing the ball down in the zone.
ask bad days gotten habits hopefully last pitches repeated rid three
I feel like I'm making progress. And that's all you can ask for. ... I feel like right now, the last two or three days I've hopefully gotten rid of some bad habits and consistently repeated my delivery. If I can do that, my pitches are going to be down and I'm going to be successful.
form
I feel like I'm getting my form back.
allowed chance establish gave league major pitch trade worked
The trade gave me a chance to pitch and grow. In retrospect, it worked out well. It allowed me to establish myself at the major league level.
definitely hard
It would be hard to say no, ... But it's definitely not what I prefer.