John Schneider

How do you get to him coming off back to back complete games?

Man, hopefully he's a little tired, you know, um, throwing that many innings.

He he's, he's unique because he's got what seems like six or seven pitches.

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And can kind of morph into different pitchers as the game kind of goes on, you know, you got to be stuck.

Stubborn, you have to be ready to hit, and you have to be stubborn with what kind of swings you're taking.

That's what it comes down to.

He's not a guy you can kind of wait out.

He's going to pound the zone.

Sometimes you've got to force some action on him, you know what I mean, if he's going really well.

So I think having seen him will help us.

We hadn't seen him in the regular season, so get some feedback from the guys and formulate a plan with Pop and Lou and Hunter and get after it.

I think it's always easier when you actually see a guy and kind of feel what his stuff is playing like and kind of what it does in comparison to other guys you've faced.

The delivery is a little unique, obviously, and there's some deception there, but that's about it.

It just comes down to putting together a good plan and kind of seeing how he's going to attack.

Is it going to be the same way, which he had a lot of success with, or is he going to deviate a little bit and can we be ready to kind of pivot with him?

I think just locating better.

Again, man, he's hit some pitches that weren't terrible.

Hit him for doubles, hit him for homers.

I just think we're locating better and kind of giving him different looks, different pitch types, different velocities, different locations.