Nick Friedel

And third base coaches have to do that all the time.

But I don't think people realize how much goes into preparation for a third base coach because it has a lot of responsibilities.

You have to know how guys throw when they're going to their right or going to their left.

You have to know how they're going to throw if they're going back on a fly ball or coming in on a fly ball.

You have to take into consideration the speed in which he would get there.

Maybe he was awkward, and what happened with the Rosarena was he couldn't get the ball out of his glove right away because he was going full speed.

So everything in an instant taken into consideration, you'd have to say it was a hell of a play.

I think you're seeing it.

I think what you're seeing is a team that, with every passing day, is getting more confidence.

The biggest factor is not the confidence that the fans have in a team, or even the coaching staff has in a team.

The biggest factor is the confidence that the team has

has in the team.

And when you play in a good team, and I played on a couple of them, we felt when we went out there on a daily basis, we were better than the team that we were playing against.

And we knew that if we could keep the game close, they would make a mistake late and we would bury them with that mistake.

And that's exactly what happened yesterday.

This team battled to keep the game close.

They obviously could have given up a few more runs in a couple of different situations, but didn't.

And because of that, the other team made a mistake.

That mistake was the throw by Rosarena, and this team wound up winning, and the Sox find themselves in a position that a couple of years ago was unthinkable.

Well, I think everybody is going out there with the idea that