Mark Haley
Mark Haley
ball bright bullpen few gave great spot strong
Just one or two pitches, and then things got out of hand. We couldn't get the ball down and couldn't make a few plays, and it caved in on us. It was all of a sudden, boom. It was a great 2-1 ball game, and then ... you've got to make pitches. And the bullpen has been a bright spot for us this season. They've been strong for us. They gave it up tonight, but they've been consistent.
bunt certainly chance couple definitely feeling good manual missing nice pick runs score sixth struggles together wins
After missing out on a chance to score more runs in the sixth and then not getting that bunt down, it was certainly nice to see Manual pick us up after that. It's also definitely a good feeling to put together a couple of wins after going through some struggles like we did.
bunt hit
That was his first bunt hit of the year.
coming kept size took
They kept coming at us. But our size took them over.
bunt call
After two strikes, it was his call to bunt or not. Bonafacio has been a big part of our offense.
curve
He had no feel for his curve ball.
balls changed hit kid speeds stayed
Give that kid credit, he stayed down and changed speeds a lot. We hit a lot of balls off the end of the bat.
battle forget gone guys last saw season
I feel confident. All season we've gone day-to-day, you forget about yesterday. Now there's no tomorrow. These guys battle all the way, you saw that in the last inning tonight.
adversity era jackson needed overcome player step struggled valuable win
Jackson has overcome a lot of adversity, and had struggled with his ERA this season. To win this championship we needed someone to step up like he did. He should be the most valuable player of this series.
aggressive anyone base fault saw
Bonifacio saw the base wasn't covered, but you can't be that aggressive in the first inning. But I'll never fault anyone for being aggressive.
five good jackson kept needed ready
I wanted five good innings. Kellen Raab was going to be ready if we needed him. But Jackson just kept going and going.
bad breaking coming
He's maturing. He's coming along. We're breaking him of some bad habits.
advantage behind lost running
Running behind all those big guys, he can get lost in there. That's an advantage for him.
guy
He's a sinker-slider guy who can get you the strikeout when you need it.