NL DIVISION SERIES: GIANTS v BRAVES

October 6, 2002

Bobby Cox

BOBBY COX: A little bit of what happened the other night. They broke a couple of bats, but there was three or four balls hit good tonight. Couldn't catch a break. Break a bat and we couldn't catch the ball because the bat was flying, two pop-ups. And really, his home run was the back-breaker. We are still in the game, two outs. And Tommy threw a lot of fastballs tonight, I thought. Didn't change speeds as much.

BOBBY COX: No, not at all. I'm not just saying that. It didn't, at all. He threw harder tonight than he has all year. He's throwing a little bit too strong -- I don't know if he didn't have the confidence in the changeup tonight, just didn't want to throw it because the fastball was so quick. He just kept missing by a couple of inches, and all of his pitches inside and outside, just off the plate.

BOBBY COX: We are going to try to make him throw strikes. First inning we hit three bullets right at him and after that we didn't do much. We hit some ball good later on, but first inning, we could have got him a little bit. Livan is hard to hit at. He's got so many different angles to come at you, he can hit the black from the outside. He's sneaky-quick. He's got the slow breaking ball, the quick one and he's a great athlete. He can field his position and do a lot of things. He's a tough guy. He was on tonight.

BOBBY COX: I think both clubs will do exactly the same thing. If that's what it takes to get one win, that's what we will try.

BOBBY COX: I can guarantee you, he did not get one break all night long. He pitched, good.