Pete Fatse

Um,

I'd be lying to say that I have a definitive answer for you, but I think what it comes down to is every team has to understand the type of offense that you have.

You can't necessarily try to be someone that you're not once you get into those moments because I think that's when you can...

I don't want to say hurt yourself, but you can start to spiral.

So I think you have to understand the type of offense that you are, the game that you play, knowing that anything can happen in a three-game series, a five-game series.

And it just kind of makes you double down on the principles that are always important.

Before two strikes, what are we looking to do?

With two strikes, what are we looking to do?

And then again, valuing the situational approach when the opportunity presents itself.

No, I don't necessarily think the guys were getting out of things.

I think those moments, you know, they're just, you know, you think about you, you play a three game series, you move on, you play during the course of the year.

It's this, it just becomes this cycle.

And obviously the one game rolls into the next.

But I think the thing that I felt like personally is that, you know, every game, obviously every single pitch, every moment is so impactful because you're literally just, you play one game, you win, you go into the next one.

The goal is just to, you know, it's,

there is you're fighting you know from pitch one so to speak because the margins are so small um i think we learned a lot as a group i think you know what you learn at least in my opinion about playing baseball october is again going back to the margins everything the margins are so slim every play every pitch there's a ton of value uh there's a ton of emphasis on on and

I think it comes down to the more you're exposed to those environments, the better you're going to be.

Like, I have no doubt that this group next year is going to be even more prepared for those moments because of what we went through as a group this year.

Would we have liked to be on the other side of it?

Sure.