AL DIVISION SERIES: ATHLETICS v YANKEES

October 13, 2001

Jorge Posada

JORGE POSADA: I'm just hanging around, and he throws the ball over both cut-off men, and Jeter's job is to stay around and see if he's going to be the cut-off man to go to the guy on third or hang around to go to home plate. He sees the ball in the air and flips it to me. And I just go -- I go all or nothing to try to tag him, and I got him on the leg on the way down?

JORGE POSADA: I got a pitch, it was a fastball, middle in, and just put the ball in play. I was trying to stay back on him, and he did a great job to keep us off balance all day. And that was the only run. And Mussina was amazing.

JORGE POSADA: No, I thought we were going to get more runs. I thought -- you look back at the game, I didn't think 1-0 was going to be the end result. But Mussina threw well.

JORGE POSADA: Well, I was hoping that the ball was thrown hard enough that it would get all the way towards me, especially if we turned the ball to Soriano, we would have had the guy by a long ways. And Jeter comes in and flips it. I really thought if Jeter didn't catch the ball, I really thought we had a pretty good chance to get the guy out at home.

JORGE POSADA: We're seeing good pitching. There's no doubt about it. They did a great job the first -- Zito did a great job today. I think it's just playoff games it seems like one run or two runs are enough. Just the way the intensity is and the guys make every pitch count, every ball, every strike counts. You take things for granted and you go out there and try to have a plan, but I think the three guys and Zito had a very good plan today.

JORGE POSADA: Well, last time he threw against Tampa he threw three innings -- I think it was four innings. And he's one of those guys, he's got to be aggressive. He's got to be able to settle down the first couple of innings, and after that he gets in a groove and he starts pitching well. He's got to be aggressive. He's got to pitch both sides of the corner. He's got to be on top of his game. These guys have a very good line-up. And hopefully we can get him some runs early, so he can relax out there.