Mark Buehrle
Mark Buehrle
Mark Alan Buehrleis an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He began his Major League Baseballcareer with the Chicago White Sox and started the opening game every season from 2002 to 2006 and again from 2008 to 2011. He has also pitched for the Miami Marlins and Toronto Blue Jays. Buehrle pitched 200 innings in 14 consecutive seasons, tying Hall-of-Famers Greg Maddux, Phil Niekro, and Christy Mathewson. He has recorded at least 10 wins in 15 straight...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth23 March 1979
CitySaint Charles, MO
Down in the bullpen everything was working for me. Pretty much in that situation, you got the Adrenalin going and if your arm is hurting or whatever, once you get on the mound. ... I was pretty loose. I can throw 15 or 20 pitches and be ready to go.
Actually, I got out in the woods and kind of cleared my mind,
He'd do little things that irritate guys. Even now when he's on your team, you still see that. You think that's fun because he's on your team.
Ever since the All-Star break, it seems like I haven't had too many good games. It's frustrating. We've still got six games with Cleveland. And the way that they're playing, they could sweep us right now. If we keep on playing like we're playing, we're not going to the playoffs. We'll be home on Oct. 3.
Being a starting pitcher, you want to go out there and get as many runs early as you can. It happened a lot early in the season, and then the offense had been struggling lately. But any time you get a couple of runs early, it's nice to work with.
I think I'll be ready for Opening Day. I could go right now.
You see him coming in with an 0-2 (record) and a 5 (ERA) and you wonder, 'How? How's that possible?
St. Louis has a better offense, but Houston has a better pitching staff. Either way you look at it, it's not going to be easy.
It's nice to start opening day and then I can get my ring and enjoy it.
I keep hearing stuff that my arm is hurt and I'm injured. I don't know where this is coming from, but I feel fine.
I think I was more nervous yesterday sitting on the bench. Obviously, when I woke up this morning I was really nervous. Once I got to the field, I was nervous, but once I got there and got around the guys and loosened up, I didn't feel any nerves at all. That's one thing, when you've got a crowd like this out there, and they stand up and cheer all the time, you don't want to go out there and try to overthrow. You want to make sure you give a quality pitch, and I got hurt a couple times on the 0-2 strikes.
I wanted to go back out there for a couple more innings. My pitch count was down, and it was the best I've felt all spring.
Without him in the second half, I don't know if we'd be here today.
You listen to people say that once they leave here, Ozzie is like no other manager they ever played for. Everyone that comes over here, we say, 'Hey, you're going to have a fun time playing for Ozzie.' They usually say, 'Yeah, that's what I heard.' I don't know if it gets around the league or what, but people want to come over here and play for him.