Mets manager Terry Collins talked to media before Game 2 of the World Series on Tuesday and said…
On the confidence level of the Mets…
Well, we’re still excited. We still have a lot of confidence. After the game you could hear the conversation; we’ve been in tough holes before. We’re used to it. We’re used to playing with adversity, like a lot of Big League clubs. And I thought Michael put it pretty good yesterday when he said, “You’ve got to win four anyway. Start now.”
So we’re not down, we’re positive. We certainly like Noah going tonight. We think he’ll pitch well. We have to start swinging the bats and getting some runs to work.
On Cespedes’ shoulder…
Well, he tells me even though it’s not a hundred percent, he said it doesn’t hurt to swing at all. He said he’s fine. He’s a big part of our order, but I always look at the other team once in a while and again they pitch pretty good. So we’ve got to get everybody going in our lineup.
On starting Conforto in left field…
We met today, coaches got together today and we talked about tonight and Ventura and what we’ve got to do. I’ll tell you what, it was 100 percent, listen, this is the team we won with. This is the team that’s had most success against right-handed pitching; this is the team we should go with. This guy has had very, very good at-bats, and has nothing to show for it. But certainly we can’t put what we’re doing offensively on the shoulders of Michael Conforto. He goes up there and every time he gets in the batter’s box, you think he’s going to hit one in the seats.
The confidence is there from the coaches, and I totally agree with it. Again, if you show panic now, it could spread in the clubhouse, and I’m not going to do that. I like our lineup. I like what they’ve done all year long. You go through ups and downs, but as we’ve seen, when they break out, they’re good. And tonight they need to break out.
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