NL DIVISION SERIES: ASTROS v BRAVES

October 9, 1999

Bobby Cox

BOBBY COX: Yeah, I did, late last night and it was, you know, just a terrific play to catch the ball, number one, and, number two, to have the ability to jump up and/or crawl up -- I don't know exactly how he did it -- and flip a perfect strike to homeplate. It was, you know, I've seen Andruw Jones make great plays all season long in centerfield, but that one might be the most important one that we make.

BOBBY COX: I think that probably has to rank number one. I've seen teams get out of jams before. If you spend enough time in this game, you'll see it, but it's a tough jam to work out of. We wiggled and we were successful and maybe a little luck involved or what. Rocker was really terrific. He threw strikes and didn't give up anything out of the infield, got a strike out and probably more times than not, you would see Rocker, if he was going to get out of that inning, probably strike out, not with the bases loaded, but I've seen him strike out before and that would be a more conventional way to get out of it. If you hit the ball, you've got a great chance to strike and they hit it twice, you know.

BOBBY COX: It will be somewhat different. It wasn't an elimination game. Fact of the matter is, those guys can pitch an inning, two innings, whatever is called for, and they were available to do that. It was Maddux's throw day and it was Millwood's throw day even on the one day. We used that as the one inning or one hitter. Today Millwood won't be available and if we got into extra innings again and we were out of guys, I guess tomorrow's pitcher is going to be Greg Maddux. There's always that possibility but it's very remote.

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