38 Pitches: Schilling: Character test incoming.

Uh-oh…If Schilling starts rambling about “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yankee Way of Knowledge”...I’m outta here!

Ouch. I certainly envisioned the start on Sunday ending in a much different manner than it did, but it didn’t. For those second guessing anything, from me being in the game to my throwing a ‘hanging’ fastball, don’t. At 69 pitches I was fine, it came down to two horribly executed split fingered fastballs that both got whacked. I had Jason in a spot to do a bunch of different things to end the AB, and didn’t. Same with Derek. Two strikes and a litany of options, none of them being a split hanging on the inside corner.

...We made no excuses and have none, it’s on us. We’ll find out over the next 9 games who we are and what we’re made of. We played ourselves into this cushion and we’re at the point of using it up. Tip your hat to the Yanks for playing as well as they have too, regardless of how well anyone has done they’ve put themselves into this position by answering the bell when they needed to.

I would tell you we’ll do the same. We’ll right the ship starting tomorrow and get after it from there.