Jeff Hoffman

It's not necessarily, you know, the home or the away team that gets the advantage in that.

It's whoever's going to be able to kind of

block that out better.

I feel like the noise and the loudness can definitely be a negative if you allow it to kind of become that.

But if you are able to stay focused on the task at hand and just take it pitch by pitch and stay kind of in your own head, then that stuff won't bother you.

Yeah, they executed their game plan.

Like I've been saying, they totally just zeroed out our offense at that time.

and we were chasing at an unbelievable rate.

And they used that to their advantage and they didn't throw us any strikes and they won those games and they did what they had to do to get to the World Series.

I mean, that's why I'm saying what I'm saying about the,

the executing of your game plan.

All these analytical numbers and all this stuff that they put in front of you nowadays, those numbers are what they are for a reason.

If you can execute your game plan and use those numbers to your advantage, you're gonna have success.

And I think that's exactly what they did.

Yeah, I mean, I think the best thing that you can do is be good at turning the page and kind of focusing on the next task.

Louie's got a great arm and great stuff and all that has stayed consistent through the time that he's been here.

I think if anything, I would say that let's just really focus on making sure that we're taking care of our pitches in certain counts and to certain guys.

If you're throwing breaking balls to good breaking ball hitters, we're taking care of those locations.

And the same thing with the fastball, you're not grooving fastballs to a good fastball hitter and just kind of giving him that.

Like I said, these guys are here for a reason.