Casey Blake
Casey Blake
William Casey Blakeis a former Major League Baseball third baseman...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth23 August 1973
CityDes Moines, IA
against front guard hit strategy trying
That was our strategy against him, to play over and in. I was trying to guard against a hit in front of me, too. I didn't think he could hit it over my head.
confidence corner good hits relaxed trying
I have confidence in my corner right now. I'm relaxed and comfortable in my approach. I'm just trying to have good at-bats. If you do that, the hits should come.
against ball caught front hit instead top
I was guarding against the ball in front of me instead of over my head. The way it hit my glove, I thought I caught it, but it hit the top of my glove or the front or something.
ball goes hit trying
I'm just trying to hit the ball hard, ... Sometimes it goes out.
behind move nice
I think it?s strict, I think it?s fair. Now it would be nice to put everything behind us and move on.
beat best capable comfort knowing maybe played team
Maybe it'll give us some comfort knowing we played with the best team, beat the best team and we're just as capable as they are.
adversity five help next overcame remember
We need to remember the adversity that we overcame this year. Hopefully, that will help us the next five games.
cheering fans hear nice
That was nice. It's nice to hear fans cheering for us. That was cool.
firing offense pitching produces tough
We started to play up to our capabilities and our expectations, and it started to come together, ... I just thought we'd be tough when we put our pitching and our offense together. When you have those pistons firing all together, it produces wins.
asking guys year
We just didn't have it. The end of the year came, we were asking guys for something, and we just didn't have it.
bat good offensive
When you're on a good offensive team, someone has to bat ninth,
feeling helpless lost momentum
I don't know. We just lost some momentum somewhere. It's a helpless feeling when you can't get anything going.
expected hard last needed win
We expected to win today. We expected to win the whole last week. When we really needed the runs, they were hard to come by.
bother city expect expected experience fans given good guys last nobody older situation win year
Expectations don't bother us, because we expect to win ourselves. Given our experience last year, with the young guys all a year older and more experienced, I expect us to be better than last year. It wouldn't be a good situation if nobody expected you to be able to win. But our fans and the city expect us to win, and so do we.