AL DIVISION SERIES: MARINERS v WHITE SOX

October 3, 2000

Jerry Manuel

JERRY MANUEL: Okay, first, the first part of that question, Jim Parque had thrown approximately 97 pitches and really is coming off of three days' rest instead of the full normal time of his rotation. And he has really never, for the most part, entered into that part of the game too often. He's normally been a five-inning, maybe six at most for us. But he had to start this particular ball game because we had to set him up in that particular fashion with the short three days' rest and three innings last time out. As far as our bullpen, I think our bullpen will be fine. What happened was we had some opportunities in the ball game to really put the ball game away and basically we just didn't get the job done.

JERRY MANUEL: Well, I think Cameron hit a home run off him. We didn't quite see the velocity I wanted to see from him in that particular matchup and I thought Bradford would give him something completely different and unique. I thought for a while there he had him, he got ahead of him, 1-2, what have you. He left the ball over the plate and did a good job of putting it into play.

JERRY MANUEL: Well, I mean that's a part of baseball. They made the key pitches at the right time. I thought there for a while that we might have been a little impatient in those situations. That's a part of the youth that we have. That's a part of the first-game jitters that you go through. But, you know, I think for the most part that we played a decent ball game for our first game being in an atmosphere such as this, and I think we'll be fine.

JERRY MANUEL: What inning?

JERRY MANUEL: No, no, not at all. I didn't think that at that time it was necessary for him. I thought he was moving okay, but wanted to really keep his bat in there.

JERRY MANUEL: You know, I think the thing that I was most concerned with was how we would perform, and I thought we responded real well. I thought we were just a little overanxious. I really feel good that I think we can score runs. I think we can put runs on the board. It's just a matter of us, you know, holding their offense. But I feel pretty good about our chances, even though we're down a run -- I mean a game. But I think we should be okay.

JERRY MANUEL: We, in Foulke's case, we're not afraid to pitch out at any time because of the fact that he has the ability to throw a strike at any time, even for the most part, when Keith is behind. It's probably when he is at his best, and he's the most dangerous. So what he said to him, we don't know. But that was the plan anyway, was to throw him a couple times and try to at least let it be seen that we would pitch out in those situations. Obviously it didn't work. I think the next pitch was a changeup for a swing and a miss. I think the next pitch was a changeup that he hit. So he's a good hitter. Sometimes you have to give him credit as well.

JERRY MANUEL: Well, I think he could be ready. I think if the matchup, if the situation presents itself where we have a chance to give ourselves an opportunity to win, I'm sure that he'd be ready to go.

JERRY MANUEL: No, I don't think so. He's been in that situation a number of times and he's come in at the end of ball games and has gotten the outs when we needed it. It just so happened that it didn't happen tonight, but we have all the confidence in the world in Keith. If we had to do it again, we'd do the same thing. It just didn't work out.