George Springer

thousands of major leaguers that don't get an opportunity to play in the big leagues or I mean in the playoffs so just to have that chance you got to go out and enjoy it.

Was it like, oh, this is... Yeah, I remember my first at-bat, I remember we were facing Tanaka, and it looked like he was meeting you away.

And I think I swung at three pitches, don't even know what I swung at, where the ball was, and then all of a sudden it was like...

Everything kind of normalized, and it was just another game.

And it was the same goal as it was on April 1st, which was just to try to win that day.

And once that kind of happened, I just kind of realized that, man, I got to go out and just enjoy this and play and have fun, because this is literally what you play for.

Yeah, I mean, as a team, you've earned it.

You know, you've had to win a lot of games.

You've had to beat a lot of good teams to get to where you are.

And...

I don't think anybody on the field takes that for granted.

I think everybody on the field knows, like, the difference between one inch, you know, could be a game or not.

It could be a base, which could lead to a run, which could lead to a different decision from the manager.

There's so many different things that that doesn't get lost on guys.

But I think, yeah, you just have to know that you've earned the right to go play.

So go play.