I actually went out there this morning because they told me not to. Somebody worked their ass off to get it ready. It looked pretty good, considering.

Yeah, that was much needed. We got deep enough into the game where we didn't have to overextend somebody. It ends up being a great day.

It's good, it worked out well. We put a nice crooked number up early.

They were actually going to hit on the field, but now they'll go down and hit in the cage, ... [General manager] Theo [Epstein] asked me a few days ago if I had a problem, and I actually thought it was great. I had met Ellsbury, but [I] had not met Lowrie.

Actually I wasn't too pleased about it. Derek got hit with a (split-finger fastball). We knew it, they knew it.... I'm not too happy about it but you have to ask the man who threw it.

You get to the ninth inning and your stomach is clear up to here. But it's not because of your job. It is because you want to win so badly.