Jeff Hoffman

You can't beat yourself.

And, you know, the other team is here for a reason too.

It's one of the best four teams left.

So, you know,

It's not going to be a cakewalk.

It never was going to be a cakewalk.

And we got to go out and play good baseball.

I think our guys do a great job of not letting it get that way.

I think we stay pretty even keel.

I think the crowd and stuff like that does that for us.

We don't add any extra on top of the atmosphere and the intensity that it already is in a playoff game.

So I think our guys do a great job of just kind of

going with the flow and staying in the game and not getting too high or too low.

Yeah, absolutely.

the atmosphere of the ballpark is something that could be used by both sides.

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.