AL DIVISION SERIES: RED SOX v INDIANS

October 9, 1999

Jimy Williams

JIMY WILLIAMS: We won't know a lot until tomorrow. I mean it's just a basic answer, but it's the truth.

JIMY WILLIAMS: Earlier in the year, we've been through some situations, too, some challenges, some injuries, disablements. And there have been other players gone out there and performed and done well. And we've won games. I think maybe throughout the course of our regular season we played a lot of people. We played our whole team with the idea that if you're here, then you're a Major League player, then you're going to play. That's the way I look at it. So with that in mind, we've won with a lot of different line-ups. I think if you talk to maybe the press that travels with us here, they might give you a better understanding of how many different line-ups. One guy said to me, you've used so many, I've lost count. I don't even count anymore. So with that in mind, it's not unusual for us to maybe have a different line-up out there at times. I know and understand this is the playoffs. I know and understand who you're speaking about. But we just keep playing.

JIMY WILLIAMS: That our pitcher was going to get the next hitter out.

JIMY WILLIAMS: A strong performance, but a continuation of the way he's pitched in his last two or three starts on the upclimb or whatever the word might be going upward, pitched good, big game. I mean we know we have to win. We have the same situation tomorrow. You know, but we get to come out here and play again. You get to come out here and ask me questions again, that's okay. That's all right with me. (Laughter.)

JIMY WILLIAMS: Managerial decision.

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