Oct. 8 Joe Maddon postgame interview

Q. You guys took a long look at Kyle after he got hit. What was the conversation like and is he going to be okay?

JOE MADDON: He’s fine. In that particular moment a guy gets hit in the arm and then he throws that first pitch and really yanks it, so I was concerned when I saw that. And my message to him was, okay, even if you could finish this inning more than likely you’re going to go in, sit down, and it’s going to swell up, you got to get ice on it, you’re probably not going out the next inning anyhow. So why mess with it right now. Why make him throw more pitches. That was the message. He knew, he knew he wasn’t right. He knew it was going to get sorer, so that’s what we did. Apparently there’s nothing wrong as we know it right now. I don’t know how long it’s going to take for him to be well to be able to pitch, but he’s fine.Q. It looked like the bullpen was just set of perfectly for you, left right, left right, and it worked out maybe exactly how you drew it up?

JOE MADDON: Yeah, of course, Woody hitting a home run was part of the plan. I did put him in there because as he was coming up second, that was part of it. Did not want to pinch hit there obviously with the two lefties at the top of the bating order, I thought it was a good spot for him. Did he really well. He’s been throwing the ball. You saw the numbers on the board. It’s getting back up to 92 and sometimes 93 with his fastball. So he has been pitching a lot for us. I was riding him a little bit too hard. We backed off towards the latter part of the year right now. He’s got his energy and his arm strength back and he was very good. And then you could talk about the whole group, CJ, outstanding. And Montgomery, you know, very, very good. The curveball was great to both sides. And then Rondon, it was nice to see Ronnie come in there against two really good hitters, and Chappy has been throwing the ball well. So, you knew that, again, that’s part of the playoff situation with the day off the next day, you could be a little bit more liberal with a lot of these different things you may want to attempt to do, although you still only have seven guys in the back of your mind extra innings, …

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