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Oct. 16 Joe Maddon postgame interview
- Updated: October 17, 2016
Q. It seemed like an awful lot came down to the ball that Javy hit that I think most people thought might go. You know this ballpark better than most. What did you see and what did you feel, what did you smell?
JOE MADDON: It’s one of those things that you get — you’re so used to watching a ball come off the bat, you knew it was just not far enough. You just knew it. It was hit well, then immediately you look at the outfielder and you look at the wind, and you know that all in advance. When you watch BP you’ll say it’s going to land the in the second row. You just knew that was at the wall, and that’s just one of those moments. He had great at-bats. He played another excellent game. But I thought that it was going to go to the wall, and that was it.Q. Joc Pederson has not been good against left-handers. You had a lefty warming in the sixth, but you put in a right-hander to face him, and it was successful. Can you take me through your thought process?
JOE MADDON: Yeah, I don’t know if they’re going to pinch hit there or not. I like that righty on him. If we didn’t have the appropriate right-hander, I would have brought in a left-hander and gone with a lefty versus one of their righties. Possibly. But I knew I liked C.J. in that situation. And then Javy makes another Javy play right there by doing what he did. But you have to make your choice right there before the game, our list knows that they may pinch hit for before the game, and I kind of try to mentally walk through what they may do if we did this or that. So I like C.J. versus him right there.Q. Kershaw appeared to be as good as ever. What’s your evaluation of his work tonight?
JOE MADDON: Give him credit, man. I thought he pitched primarily with his fastball. The thing that I was really curious about was velocity and location before the game, and he had both. Command of his fastball was outstanding. He didn’t really have his curveball today, which should have worked in our favor. I think Javy had the base hit up the muddle on a curveball. Other than that, he might have thrown five. Slider became more pertinent for him later, but primarily pitched with his fastball and kept the ball off our barrel. He didn’t strike a lot of guys out. I was taking a little bit of solace in that. I think he ended up with six strikeouts in seven innings, which that’s okay. If we’re moving the ball that much, you would think or I would think that we’re going to get more hits than we did. So kept the ball. He kept the ball off the fat part of our bat. He threw strikes like he normally does. So despite not having rest, his command and velocity were still good.Q. You said before the game that you would know pretty quickly if Kershaw was going …
