MLB ALL-STAR GAME

July 8, 2001

Toby Hall

TOBY HALL: You get up there your first time, you've got the jitters, 40-some odd thousand people are there, trying to concentrate. I was just able to have a good at-bat and stay focused.

TOBY HALL: It's a great feeling. Greg and I are from the same city, Sacramento, and it's an honor. I don't know what happened to him, but...

TOBY HALL: Oh, hamstring. That's unfortunate, but it's a good feeling.

TOBY HALL: I've always grown up and known knowing where I was born and what state; I've been a Mariners fan. To be able to come here in the new stadium, it was a good feeling.

TOBY HALL: It was for only about a year. I was born here. My father was in the military and then we moved to California. That's where I was mainly raised.

TOBY HALL: Just making adjustments. There's little things; it was the same pitch that I had fouled off. I just tried to stay focused in case he threw it again, to make sure to put a better swing on it. It's tough, you know. You've never faced a lot of these -- I've never faced any of these guys out here. To make adjustments quickly, that's the main part of games like this.

TOBY HALL: You can't control the uncontrollable. My situation is, they give me a Durham Bulls uniform to wear every day and I go about my business that way. Whatever happens from then on, if they give me a different jersey some other time, then I will do the same thing.