I think you'd see a lot of teams roll over in that situation. We continued to take it one at-bat at a time and it nearly added up in the end.
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I was kind of working through the ball and trying to catch it, and all of a sudden I'm lying on the ground. I still got a piece of it, but not enough, ... At the time, they were two pretty big runs. At the time, it's like the whole stadium's watching you. You have that feeling -- you're thinking that might have been the game.Reed Johnson
I didn't know it was a record, I was just trying to go up there and get a hit every time.
Reed Johnson
I know I can play every day in this league. As far as the (Jays') moves, I didn't even think, 'Gee I'm glad they didn't make any outfield moves. We got a couple of pitchers we needed. We needed a closer and we got that. We needed a power bat and we got that. Wow
Reed Johnson
Those late runs are always huge. We only had a 2-1 lead at the time, and we were able to stretch it out to 6-2. That's huge, and it takes a lot of pressure off our bullpen. We haven't been able to do a lot of that lately for our pitchers.
Reed Johnson
There's a way to use it the right way and then you've got a lot of people who abuse the revenue-sharing by not putting it back into their team. That's a concern now.
Reed Johnson
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