On how he expects his team to respond after tough Game 5 win…
“Well, they’re pretty fired up. I mean, as you saw after the game the other night, they’re pretty excited. Just talked to a bunch of the guys today, they’re extremely excited to get this thing going tonight, and we like the matchups we have, and we’ll be ready to play.”
On why he started Michael Cuddyer over Lucas Duda at 1B…
“hen you have a guy that’s familiar with what somebody does to get people out, today in our scouts meeting, Michael Cuddyer, believe me, will speak up, because he has a good idea, not that it’s ever easy to face those kind of pitchers because one thing we know about Jon Lester, he’s a big-game pitcher; he’s shown it in the last few years. But Michael’s seen him, he knows how to face him. So we thought today would be a good matchup for him.”
On if Duda will start on Sunday…
“Yes.”
On using Tyler Clippard and Addison Reed out of the bullpen…
“Well, the other day they both have pitched. The other day in Los Angeles Tyler gave us a big inning. Reed gave us a big inning the other night here in the game we won. So they know they’re going to be used. We just said, set-up this instance — and I will tell you what, had it been a different part of the order, I’m not sure I would have gone to [Noah] Syndergaard. But that part of the lineup against the Dodgers, as I said — Dan (Warthen) said, Look, this is the time you’ve got to go with the best power guy. We’ve got to see if we can overpower him, and he did, and that was the right guy. But right now those other guys have been our guys and they’ll be our guys tonight.”
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