AL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES: ANGELS v WHITE SOX

October 12, 2005

Mark Buehrle

MARK BUEHRLE: Yes, I was figuring to go out there and make the pitches your counts instead of hitters' counts. That's always going to help. Probably one of the best games of my career. I felt good out there. Change in the middle innings we found in the 7th and 8th inning and made a couple of key pitches and had a ground ball and a couple of outs, but one of the best games of my career.

MARK BUEHRLE: Obviously you don't want to go to Anaheim down 2-0. You know how good a team that is, or Los Angeles, whatever they are. You know how good a team they are and you want to go out there and throw up zeroes. We didn't know how the offense was going to respond to Washburn with him being out for a while. But we came out there and battled and tried to throw up as many zeroes, just like all season long, didn't give the other team a chance to score.

MARK BUEHRLE: Yeah, Coop came over and asked me after the 9th inning to ask me how I felt. He said, "Are you going to be back out there?" I said, "You might as well send me back out there." Like I said, this was one of the strongest games, and in the 9th inning, especially with this crowd behind us, certain pitches, getting ahead of the count, I said I can't let the crowd get me going too much and make a mistake, I just have to make some quality pitches, which I did.