AL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES: YANKEES v MARINERS

October 18, 2001

Scott Brosius

SCOTT BROSIUS: My thought was to try to get a fastball if I can. He had good command of his offspeed today. He had a real good curveball and a changeup so I was just trying to think about getting something straight to hit. Just it was probably jumping in a little bit. I have not seen the replay, but it just ended up in a good spot down on the corner.

SCOTT BROSIUS: He is vital to us. You look on the other side and the big difference in the Mariners this year has been Ichiro. Knoblauch is the same guy. Your offense goes as far as your lead-off guy did. He's been big getting on base, and like tonight, with the two-out hit getting the third run hit.

SCOTT BROSIUS: I think, certainly, being on the heels of coming back from an 0-2 deficit we certainly know that this series is not over. Obviously, you could not ask for more, to come into the visiting park and come away with two wins. But it takes focus to win the series, but it's difficult a little bit more of, I guess, a positive flight, knowing that we can go back in with a Game 3 trying to take command of the series.

SCOTT BROSIUS: I don't know. I think during the season, there maybe is a little bit of a different mind set. You are kind of playing over the long haul and when you struggle, you tend to have a tendency to know that you have some at-bats and you want to try to work through it. Not that you are really thinking about statistics, but you know there's numbers involved, but you get to the post-season and it's just kind of a 0-0, where every game, you take the mindset that every game is a must-win. It's real easy to gain a focus and a concentration when you feel like you are in a must-win game.

SCOTT BROSIUS: It's been getting a little bit better. Obviously, in the Oakland series, I didn't swing it that well, and didn't swing it that well going into the last week of the season. You know, who knows why. It's kind of a strange game. You can't always you wish you could come into the post-season clicking every time, but it doesn't always work that way and the at-bats have gotten better. I felt like tonight, even after the hit, I was giving myself a better chance. Freddy still made some great pitches and Nelson made some good pitches to get us out, but I thought the at-bats were getting better.

SCOTT BROSIUS: A little bit of , "Whew", It's been a long time since I ran the bases. I got on base in Oakland and that lasted three seconds and I got thrown out at second. So it was nice to be on base and feel like you did something offensively to contribute.