AL DIVISION SERIES: RED SOX v WHITE SOX

October 5, 2005

Mark Buehrle

MARK BUEHRLE: Throw it down the middle and let them hit harder. The first inning I fell behind, but other than that I felt like I made a couple good pitches. The pitch to Ramirez that almost went to the wall, it was a fast ball and I hit my spot. I had to keep going out there and battling. I was frustrating myself but I wanted to give the team a chance to come back.

MARK BUEHRLE: It's definitely huge. I think people know what the Red Sox did to the Yankees last year, and with that lineup, we can't slow down. We've got to go out there and finish these guys as quick as we can.

MARK BUEHRLE: When it happened, I said it kills me because I love Graffanino and he's a great guy, but when he's on the other team, we're trying to win no matter what. It's unfortunate for him, but it's fortunate that so we could take the lead.

MARK BUEHRLE: Going back out there after we scored the five runs, and to take a lead like that, you want to go out there and throw 0s as quick as you can. I want to go out there and say, you know what I need to throw 0s as quick as I can, first guy came on, and I said "Here we go again." Once I got taken out, I went over and gave everybody high fives in the offense and said "Thanks."

MARK BUEHRLE: Pretty much. That's the way it's been all season. Everything I throw up there, they take close pitches. Anything in the strike zone, they hit and wait for me to make a mistake, and they hit the ball hard, so I'm just fortunate that we're up 2-0 and hopefully we can sweep these guys so I don't have to face them.

MARK BUEHRLE: Well, I don't know if Crede had a hard time reading the ball, but Crede's been great defensively all year. It's frustrating to start off a game like that, but we had to bear down and try to get the guys out. If guys make errors, that's going to happen.

MARK BUEHRLE: I don't recall that game. It was a long time ago.

MARK BUEHRLE: I think I was more nervous yesterday sitting on the bench. Obviously, when I woke up this morning I was really nervous. Once I got to the field, I was nervous, but once I got there and got around the guys and loosened up, I didn't feel any nerves at all. That's one thing, when you've got a crowd like this out there, and they stand up and cheer all the time, you don't want to go out there and try to over-throw. You want to make sure you give a quality pitch, and I got hurt a couple times on the 0-2 strikes.

MARK BUEHRLE: That's what I've always said, if we give up runs early, we've got to go out there and throw 0s. The way this offense has been hitting the last couple of weeks, just go out there and throw 0s because we know they're going to come in and put some runs on the board. I was frustrated myself giving up those runs.

MARK BUEHRLE: I'm going to give up a lot of hits being in the strike zone. I don't walk too many guys, so teams come up there hacking, it's one thing if I out there to give up hits, it's just keep it in the ballpark. That's the thing for me.