AL DIVISION SERIES: RED SOX v INDIANS

October 8, 1999

Jimy Williams

JIMY WILLIAMS: Wouldn't have proven anything for him to work out today, because he -- his wrist bothers him. But it's been bothering him, too. So we just gave him the day off from the standpoint of hitting, taking grounders, get his treatment inside, and look forward to him having the opportunity to play tomorrow.

JIMY WILLIAMS: Well, we're still playing. You play the regular season, then you start into what I call maybe a sprint mode, where you get into these playoffs. But I don't believe it's frustrating. We're here, we'll play these games, you know, we know where we are. We're basically down to -- tomorrow's game is like a one-game playoff for us. You know? That's where we are.

JIMY WILLIAMS: I was looking for Nomar, because I got here early. I was looking for him when he arrived. I was going to talk with him and basically tell him my opinion, you know, what are you going to prove to go out there and work out. It's not really going to do anything for you, from this standpoint because your wrist bothers you, but you've been able to play with it. So why don't you just stay in here, get your treatment, take it easy, take a day off from swinging, from throwing -- because realistically, if it wasn't for you folks, we wouldn't be here today. We had to be here. That's okay. So we decided to have a little workout. But we, you know, Nomar's not working out.

JIMY WILLIAMS: Well, you know, I don't know the pain. I mean he's the only one that really knows and feels what he feels. But I just took a precautionary approach from the standpoint that when he came in today, to tell him I didn't think it was necessary for him to go out on that field today.

JIMY WILLIAMS: Well, I think he feels better today, possibly -- probably play catch tomorrow. I think he has full range of motion with his arm, with less pain than what he's had.

JIMY WILLIAMS: Well, until I hear anything different, I mean that's my whole mental approach as far as making up our line-up. I'm sure that's the way he feels, too.

JIMY WILLIAMS: Every game we played this season was important in my mind, and this game is no different even though we understand the magnitude that this is the playoffs, he has pitched in the playoffs before. He has pitched well in his last couple starts. The big thing for me in watching him pitch, just foundation. To me, foundation of every athlete's your legs. To me, his legs, he really carried his legs well underneath him when he pitched especially those last two games. I don't really believe he was tired when he came out because of the conditioning that this man has gone through all year basically to try and come back to this level and be a successful pitcher, which I think he has done and shown. So to me, I look forward to watching him pitch.