44 Quotes by Casey Blake

That was nice. It's nice to hear fans cheering for us. That was cool.

That was our strategy against him, to play over and in. I was trying to guard against a hit in front of me, too. I didn't think he could hit it over my head.

I was proud of the way we came back. We could have just said, 'Well, this one's over.' But the way this team has been playing lately and the confidence we have, we refuse to give in.

We need to remember the adversity that we overcame this year. Hopefully, that will help us the next five games.

We just didn't have it. The end of the year came, we were asking guys for something, and we just didn't have it.

When you're on a good offensive team, someone has to bat ninth,

We started to play up to our capabilities and our expectations, and it started to come together, ... I just thought we'd be tough when we put our pitching and our offense together. When you have those pistons firing all together, it produces wins.

Expectations don't bother us, because we expect to win ourselves. Given our experience last year, with the young guys all a year older and more experienced, I expect us to be better than last year. It wouldn't be a good situation if nobody expected you to be able to win. But our fans and the city expect us to win, and so do we.

We expected to win today. We expected to win the whole last week. When we really needed the runs, they were hard to come by.