Brian Bannister
Brian Bannister
Brian Patrick Bannisteris an American former professional baseball starting pitcher. He played for the New York Mets and Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball from 2006 through 2010 and is currently the assistant pitching coach for the Boston Red Sox...
alive pure staying ugly winning wonder
That's winning ugly and just staying alive out there. Sometimes I wonder what I win with. Sometimes it's just pure determination.
extremely fallen tough
He is one of my inspirations to keep working hard. He is extremely talented, but he has fallen on some tough times. I think about him a lot when I play.
bases felt game gave guys pat pitch run tough watching
I gave him a pat because I felt right there with him. It's tough watching those guys run around the bases and you can't do anything about it, especially after you pitch well. It's just sometimes the game comes down to one pitch. It's frustrating. We didn't have to say anything. We felt each other's pain.
advantage guys rely spring team trying
I'm trying to take advantage of it like in spring training. It's one of those things where I'd like to get over with it now and go out there, and once that happens, then I feel like I can be a part of this team and really just rely on these guys like they can on me.
severe sitting tight
It's not torn. It's not anything severe. It's really just tight right now. If it was more severe I'd probably be sitting down.
aware cool hit hopefully inside knew stir trying
I didn't want to stir anything up. When we went in, we went in. I was just more aware what we were doing. Once I went through the lineup, hopefully they knew I wasn't going inside and trying to hit anybody. Hopefully it would cool off.
throw
When you throw strikes, they are going to get hits.
pitch prove role whatever
Whatever role they have for me is fine. I just wanted to prove to myself that I could pitch at this level.