I felt like I could throw every pitch with conviction and not worry about my mechanics. The walks today came up and bit me. ... I just couldn't execute my pitches.
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I never claimed to be anything other than the type of pitcher that I am, which is to go out and battle as hard as I can to get a win. And it worked. Everybody wants to harp on last year, but I was gone for the heart of the year, hurt.
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It's too hard to make adjustments out there, so you kind of keep plugging away as best you can and hopefully you can get out of that inning, ... Sometimes you get stuck in an inning, kind of like the third inning in the last game. I couldn't get out of it. That's what I've always been able to do, is work through an inning.
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I felt like I was right around the zone the whole night.
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I was trying to extend my running to make sure I was ready and felt something, and that's kind of where we're at right now.
Russ Ortiz
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.
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