MLB WORLD SERIES: YANKEES v BRAVES

October 26, 1999

Bobby Cox

BOBBY COX: They're a good hitting ballclub; they can come back. You know, they have a tough line-up. Tommy Glavine was throwing great tonight. I know everybody's going to ask why you left him in, this and that, but Tommy was throwing great. Didn't want to come out of the game. I asked him if he was tired and he said no. We all thought he was throwing great. Tommy thought he was throwing great himself, and I thought he was throwing good. We got beat with a popup to right field, a Yankee home run. They hit three of them here tonight. The last one was really tagged, but the ball went 315 feet and that's a home run and that's the way it is here. A home run's a home run. But Tommy pitched great. He only had, I think, 72 pitches going into that inning. We thought that he would cruise through it.

BOBBY COX: That was a big one to lose. We were going to get back in this thing. We played a first tough inning. We lost them both, could easily be up 2-1 instead of 3-0. We will give it everything we've got tomorrow night. Now we're down to where we really have to run the table.

BOBBY COX: We were going to steal third base all night long on Pettitte. That's the one base you can steal again him. I thought he changed arms. I thought he had the base stolen easily. He was going to be safe and transferred it somehow. I thought he would be safe easy. No, no, we're going to play our game when we can. We can't steal second off of him but we can certainly steal third. We were gone.

BOBBY COX: Second and third, Hernandez having hit a bullet right at Jeter, that ball was in the hole. That ball was really tagged and was right at him. That counts as a missed opportunity, but he really hit the ball hard. And, you know, anywhere else, you hit it that hard, it was right at him.

BOBBY COX: I think that's the first time Rivera ever had a caught stealing, I think. I'm not sure. It bounced down there, but it bounced down there real good. It took off. He was definitely out. He throws so hard that even though his delivery is a little bit deliberate, he throws so hard it gets to the catcher. Girardi, he got rid of the ball, bounced it and it ended up a great throw.

BOBBY COX: I don't know. I didn't think it was close to the wall. The other one that Curtis hit out there I thought probably wouldn't go on that one I didn't think was out at all. I don't know. I asked him how close he got to it. He said like that.

BOBBY COX: No. I thought Tommy could get at least a couple outs. He did. To me, the popup to right field, you could get a home run at 315 feet, that's an out in my book, but here it's not. He was throwing really good. There was no reason to take him out really. In fact, if I had taken him out to start the inning, it would have been Remlinger to start.

BOBBY COX: We had enough runs. It doesn't bother me. We had enough runs. Hernandez's ball, that's one ball that didn't get through. But we had enough runs to win the ball game.

BOBBY COX: I don't know.

BOBBY COX: When you saw him introduced tonight, I know he was a little guy. I was amazed when he was standing by the other players how short he is and how powerful that he is, too. I know he can hit home runs. Somebody asked me about who would be the star in the series; it's always somebody you don't expect. It's not always the big stars that do things. Tonight he certainly was the star. Up to this point, I suppose Brosius would be the star, with his hitting, two home runs in the other series, and, you know, a bunch of hits against us. You never know where it's going to come from.

BOBBY COX: We still have our rotation intact. It's not impossible. We've swept other teams before, not in the World Series, but, you know, it would have been nice to win tonight's ball game. It would have gotten us going real good. Now we're really going to have to tighten it up and go as hard as we can. There's no other way to explain it. We've got to get going.

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