Russ Ortiz
Russ Ortiz
Russell Reid Ortizis a retired Major League baseball pitcher. Ortiz played for the Atlanta Braves, Arizona Diamondbacks, Baltimore Orioles, San Francisco Giants, Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers. He is 6 ft 1 intall, and weighs 220 pounds...
battle days today
The thing that's frustrating to me is sometimes I feel like there's going to be days when I have to battle and today wasn't one of those days.
seemed wish
I can't. I wish I could. Nothing seemed to be where I wanted it.
evaluate mound throw throwing
I'll throw off the mound and see where it's at. . . . We're going to evaluate it. Keep throwing and see how it feels.
adds felt good john
I think we felt pretty good about our bullpen, ... but, definitely, getting John back adds a lot.
bats fact good guys happy hit main objective ready swing throw
I am here to get ready for the season. My main objective is to throw good pitches. I want the guys to swing the bats and hit the ball. I was really happy for a while there, the fact I was getting ahead.
pitches throw
The most important thing is that I'm able to throw all my pitches for strikes.
answers happy honest
Right now, and this is as honest as I've ever been, I'm not happy with the situation. I'm not happy having to go through this. There are a lot of things I don't have answers for.
along confident
I thought all along I'd feel more confident up here than down there.
trying
I could see that they were serious, ... Winning's important. I wanted to be a part of what they're trying to accomplish.
battle best bullpen days fight five hoping leg location six threw whatever worries
After I threw my bullpen two days after that start, my leg was great. So there were no worries about that. My location just wasn't there at all today, for whatever reason. I'm doing the best I can to see if I can fight through it. After the first inning, I was hoping to just battle and give us five or six innings.
guess hit mistakes seven time
I made seven mistakes today. I got hit hard. What are you going to do? I wasn't very happy, obviously, to put us in that situation, but at the same time I guess it could have been a lot worse.