Adam Ottavino
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So I can see every pitch, and I have my iPad with all the stuff on it.
Okay, all right.
I'm prepared.
I do have to stay locked in, and I'll tell you, it wasn't that easy the other day.
It was literally like 40 degrees, and I was not prepared.
It was totally bad by me.
My toes were numb.
My fingers were numb.
Luckily, I knew some guys on the Cleveland bullpen who were making fun of me the whole time, and they brought me fresh coffees and stuff like that.
We thought I was going to end up in one, and that would have been pretty funny for the broadcast, but they brought me this blanket that kind of did the job early.
I knew it was the right pitch.
I knew what he should have done.
I just didn't know if he would do it.
So there was a moment in midway through it where I said, he could throw a pitch.
He could go really high fastball or curveball in the dirt, but they can't be strikes.
Like, that I was 100% sure about.
Like, the pitch had to be out of the zone.
But then he said, so you like curveball here?
And I said, absolutely.
Just got to get it to the ground.