17 Quotes by Brian Fuentes

It was a little surreal. The bleeding never stopped. . . . I'm sure everyone expected us to move on fairly easy.

It was a little surreal that the bleeding never stopped.

That was a big year for me last year. It's probably the reason I have the opportunity to do this now.

It's no secret that I throw a lot of fastballs, and guys are going to come hunting (after) it. Start him off with something soft and give him a different look, and then I can speed him up with something later. I kind of had a game plan coming in.

It's an opportunity to represent Merced as well. Everybody is real proud of me being a local guy and doing real well.

It's nice that toward the end of the game, we've got that stability down there. Fortunately, Cortes was lights out tonight, he was unbelievable, and he set me up for the ninth.

I just want to be a little better than last year. When you are closing you don't have much of a say, you don't know how many opportunities you will get. You just have to be ready and go out and pitch in whatever situation they put me in.

I just kind of forgot about it until it first started coming up in the press in November.