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Oct. 5 Terry Collins postgame interview
- Updated: October 6, 2016
Q. Obviously, you’ve done so much to get to this point, but to lose it the way you did, I mean, how much are those guys hurting right now?
TERRY COLLINS: Well, they’re hurting, but there’s no reason to be. I mean, they were written off so many times this summer and yet they kept fighting back, and they said the other day you’ve got to have special people and special character to play in this town and in this environment, and that’s in that room.
So they’re down, which they should be. I mean, it’s human nature. They’re baseball players. They were here to win, they wanted to win. Tremendous fan support tonight, absolutely unbelievable.
So exciting to start the game and to hear that noise, and they’re down. But they shouldn’t be because there’s only a few teams that could have come back under the circumstances we came back on, and I’m really proud of them.
Q. Before the game you mentioned that Cespedes could flip the switch on and he’s shown that ability in the past. But the way Bumgarner has pitched tonight and what he was up against, were you surprised he really had such a struggle?
TERRY COLLINS: I was, not to take anything away from Madison. He’s one of the game’s great big-game pitchers. But this guy’s a great talent. I just thought we needed him tonight. We needed him bad, and that he was ready for it. He was all fired up, and, as you know, the old adage, good pitching beats good hitting, and tonight he was better.
Q. Given everything that happened this year and all the injuries, can part of you say that getting this far this year was equal or bigger accomplishment than winning the league last year?
TERRY COLLINS: I think it is. I think it was, certainly. You know, talked to a couple of you guys before the game started, and they mentioned about the lack of some of the guys that were on the field that weren’t here last year. I looked out there today and I said here’s our catcher who catches Noah. Didn’t have a job in April. You know, we had two guys, I think Ces — or three guys, Ces, Grandy, and Noah who were in the World Series with us last year.
So, yeah, we overcame a lot of things. So to get here it took a lot of character. Boy, I tell you, and we’re …
