AL DIVISION SERIES: RED SOX v INDIANS

October 9, 1999

Jaret Wright

JARET WRIGHT: They had told me, it's been -- we've known about Dave's little soreness and, yeah, he told me to -- I was a longman or whatnot, if something went wrong. And it did, unfortunately, after Dave was doing a great job, and so I came in after that.

JARET WRIGHT: After a point, just gets, you know, loud. I mean I heard it and whatnot, but it doesn't affect your pitching. It's -- you know, with the stuff I've dealt with so far, it's just getting it done out there. Just hitting your spots and, you know, I didn't get it done, basically, to put it bluntly. That's what happened. You know, there's -- there's no way that the crowd or something like that should ever affect you. So, you know, that weight's on my shoulders, not anything the crowd did.

JARET WRIGHT: Mentally, my mindset was, you know, I wasn't, you know, starting a game in the series or whatnot, I was in the pen. It was my turn. It was my shot to, you know, do something good and, you know, it didn't work out today. And, you know, hopefully something comes up tomorrow, we play another game, I'll be all right.

JARET WRIGHT: I think the, you know, the two-to-one naturally shows we're in control. I think, you know, to win another ball game is, you know, is up to us. We're going to go out there and these guys played hard all year. And I think there's a lot of veteran guys, a lot of character, a lot of fight in these guys, and we're going to be ready to play tomorrow. We were ready today; it didn't work out.

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