NL DIVISION SERIES: GIANTS v BRAVES

October 7, 2002

Barry Bonds

BARRY BONDS: I don't know. I've never been passed the first round. I'm shocked, to be honest with you, I've seen a lot of celebrations by them. They're a class act team. They've got a class act organization. That's why they won as many championships as they won and been the team that they've been over the decade. You play hard and you do the best you can. You can't say enough for that organization. I just feel good that I finally got past one round.

BARRY BONDS: Without a doubt. I think what Russell Ortiz did in this series is just phenomenal. And Livan came through big for us in the elimination. I'll be happy once I win the World Series. Right now I'm just a little bit shocked because I've never been past the first round. And I don't know how to respond right now. I don't know to be happy or to just sit here.

DUSTY BAKER: No. I have never been a superstitious person, but my son wears this shirt that I'm wearing underneath in San Francisco. And he said we've never lost a game when I wore this shirt. So I put this shirt on underneath my shirt. All I was doing was just looking up in the sky and just saying, you know what, son, you're something else. That's all I was thinking about.

BARRY BONDS: You can't compare right now. The World Series is what it's about. It's going to come down to two teams in the World Series, and it's going to come down to one team that wins it. You can't compare right now.

BARRY BONDS: I don't know. We've just been playing good baseball the last month of the season. And the momentum for us has just been on our side right now. We pitched well and we've been able to get key hits in key situations. This whole series has been lopsided until today. We'd win by a big margin or they'd win by a big margin. It's been so flip side, I was just hoping it wasn't their turn.

BARRY BONDS: It's a personal satisfaction when you win. Regardless. I hit the ball hard this whole series and I didn't get a whole lot out of it. The first game against Glavine I went one for four and hit three balls hard. The second game, Millwood pitched it and made perfect pitches all the time and put us in the hole. And then we got back with Glavine again and beat him again. Millwood is probably, I think, with us, it was just a little bit help that he went on three days rest and Glavine went on three days rest, because those type of pitchers can go on three days. Like Livan, he can pitch almost every single day. They just have the arms to do that. We were just trying to take advantage of the situation with Millwood, and hopefully one of his pitches weren't as consistent as it was the first time we faced him.

BARRY BONDS: I'm just a ball player. That's just unfortunate with, during the course of a season I put up numbers that are pretty overwhelming. And the expectation for me every at bat is to hit a home run or score a run or steal a base or do something every single at bat. During the course of a season that never happens at all either. It's just unfortunate that it's just so much emphasis put on me as an individual than us as a team.

BARRY BONDS: Right now I'm just trying to get through the day. I almost forgot who we were playing next, to be honest with you. I've never been here before, so I'm just going to rest tomorrow and go on Wednesday.

BARRY BONDS: No. We were out of it before, I always said, I'm going to work harder and I'll be back. And I worked real hard, and we worked hard as a team, and we're be back. And I won't be satisfied until I get a World Series ring. So I'm not calm, I'm just determined to win a World Series ring.

BARRY BONDS: I think that Gary Sheffield is a great baseball player. The Atlanta Braves is a great team, and there should never be pressure on one guy in that team. Because they have all all-star players over there. So for the media to take potshots at Gary Sheffield, I'd have to just watch my language.