Josh Beckett

I still pitched good.

And, you know, it was definitely a good game, but then, you know, you fast forward and I go to Chicago and,

the Chicago series and my first game against Chicago, I give up like six or seven in the first two innings and Pudge and I are arguing in the dugout, like yelling at each other.

Every time God gets on first base, he's throwing fastballs away and they're fucking hitting them in the goddamn gap off me.

And I,

I mean, we get into it in the dugout about it.

And I'm like, just call him, you know, whatever.

Jack McKeon comes over there, gets in between us.

I don't remember what he said.

But anyway, it kind of calmed me down.

Went back out there, ended up throwing six or seven innings, giving up the six or seven runs that I'd already given up, and we win the game.

And really, in the playoffs, that's what it's all about.

I mean, it doesn't matter.

Nobody looks at a box score to see how the starter did if they won the game.

You know what I'm saying?

It's just different.

So, yeah, I mean, I think all those things kind of prepared me for that in 03.

You know, I'd already been through a loss that I pitched good.

I got a win that I didn't pitch so good.

And then you go to game five, and, you know, I still think, you know, everybody talks about game six against the Yankees, but, like, honestly, my best game of that deal was –