MLB WORLD SERIES: GIANTS v ANGELS

October 24, 2002

Bengie Molina

Jose Molina

BENGIE MOLINA: I think by my part, winning the World Series will be a nice gift for him. He will be proud of us just winning this thing right here. Not being able to be there, it's hard, it's tough. It's not easy for us, just being here. I think it's tough for us, but we got to overcome that and just play baseball and hopefully we'll win the World Series for him.

BENGIE MOLINA: We never play against each other or in the same team, but we've been playing baseball since we were four years old. The league goes from January to August, from September to December. So, it's all year-round baseball, and we've been doing that since we're four years old. We haven't missed a year.

JOSE MOLINA: When he started, he was a big influence in me because I was the first to be a catcher. Bengie never was a catcher until he signed. I mean, when I come up and I start catching, then I see him as a superstar. I try to learn the way he throws on his knees. Then, in '99, I played with the Cubs, and he was on that team, too. He was with me. To me, he was a big help. He's been a big part of me and my defense.

BENGIE MOLINA: Obviously, we're going to see a better Appier than Game 2, that's for sure. He's a veteran. He knows what he's doing out there. He knows what he did wrong in the past game, for sure. He studied a lot of hitters. He studied a lot of video. Like I said, he knows what he did wrong. He's going to come out even harder the next game. I think we're going to see a great Appier the next game.

BENGIE MOLINA: I think we missed a lot of spots on that game. We hit the middle of the plate too many times instead of going to the corners, like he usually does. He hits a corner pretty good. But in that game we were missing right down the middle with the ball and they didn't miss many hits.

BENGIE MOLINA: Not right now, after I let that fastball get away yesterday. No, I never thought about that. I said to myself, "Keep going hard, keep going the way I'm playing right now. Don't think about that stuff. Just try to win every game you can. Right now, try to win the World Series." After everything is done, yeah, you got a lot of time to think about it. But not right now.