NL DIVISION SERIES: CUBS v BRAVES

October 3, 2003

Bobby Cox

BOBBY COX: We really didn't hit that many balls hard, and Prior was a little bit wild early in the game and we couldn't take advantage of it. That's probably where we got hurt a little bit. You know, if a pitcher makes a mistake, somebody's got to get a hit somewhere. He had great stuff there tonight. Maddux I thought threw a terrific game. He made all the pitches he needed to, and he got beat with those jam shots. Typical Maddux runs actually. The balls they hit good, we caught. The balls they didn't, fell in.

BOBBY COX: He hurt his calf the very first inning and really hurt it again the third and he gutted out the next few innings he pitched, and I thought he did a great job pitching on one leg.

BOBBY COX: Yeah, we're going to pitch Ortiz and come back with Hampton.

BOBBY COX: We don't feel like we're scrambling. I'm not down at all. All we have to do is win two ballgames. We've done that hundreds of times. I still feel real good.

BOBBY COX: No, I did not to be honest. I didn't really hear anything tonight.

BOBBY COX: You could see that the first time he came to the big leagues. He's been around the block. It's not like an 18-year-old coming up here. He's got plenty of poise. He has good control, even though he got off his mark early in the ballgame. His control is pretty spectacular.

BOBBY COX: No, not at all. We're playing okay, and a few hits would overcome some errors. I don't think the errors led to anything. We're playing pretty good ball. We need to get a few hits in there to fall in.

BOBBY COX: I told you already, didn't I? He pulled a calf muscle in the first and third inning.

BOBBY COX: He was always a hitter all the way through. He was trying to pop him up and he looped it right in and the same with Lofton. We had a game in Montreal with Hernandez pitching, and he made one bad pitch, and I told him the next day, I said you had a great Maddux day. You made all the pitches but one. That's typical Maddux run right there.