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Nestor Cortes recaps his no-hit bid vs. Rangers - YouTube
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i asked aaron boone about your cutter in
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there and he said it's like it was like
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steve carlton's slider just how would
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you describe that pitch for you today uh
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yeah it was on today uh i was able to
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locate her to both parts of play uh got
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some you know funny swings uh soft
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contact and i think that's what helped
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me you know get through the
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day today he said he felt like early on
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he knew that you had that no hit stuff
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was there a point in time during this
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game that you thought you know what i
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think i might have the stuff um
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i felt like like early on i was
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attacking the zone real well um
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you know i feel like you never know
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how long you can go without giving a up
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a hit um
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you know after the fifth inning it felt
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kind of special and and you know i was
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just trying to
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to maintain it when does it dawn on you
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that you had not allowed a hit yet what
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point time the game fifth inning sixteen
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uh kind of like fifth going into the six
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uh i kept
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looking at the scoreboard uh i see where
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my pitch count was and stuff like that
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so
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i knew i was in a good spot and and you
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know noticed that i hadn't get up ahead
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so
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you know it was special what were the
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emotions like in that seventh as they
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made you work a little bit
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yeah i gave up two walks and and you
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know i was just hoping for for grandpa
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to play and we almost got it um you know
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and i was i was lucky enough to get out
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of that inning
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now so your career high number of
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pitches i think was 103 going into today
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how long could you have kept going if
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your pitch count kept going up and you
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were still working in there um honestly
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i felt pretty good going through back
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out for the eighth
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i thought i threw like seven pitches six
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for strikes i want to say um body felt
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good obviously when you know when the
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the emotions and the adrenaline is
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rushing uh everything feels great but
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now i feel like i got hit by a truck
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i realized that they hadn't scored any
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runs
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uh
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you know i
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obviously going like i said fifth and
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sixth inning i i you know i i didn't
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give up so i knew there were they i
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didn't give up a run so
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um what about your team i mean oh
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ours um
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you know i think about that no at all um
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you know my goal is always to keep my
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team in the game um and as far and as
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long as i can do it um and honestly i
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don't i don't concentrate on their other
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part because i know it's very hard and
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and you know if if they're battling and
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we're battling i will we'll come out
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with a positive with a positive uh
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outcome let's see if paul falls in
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uh for the hit what's going through your
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head as it falls uh i thought i i made a
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good pitch uh you know he filed off a
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couple good pitches um away and you know
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i thought i i i was able to take my shot
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in
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uh being one two count uh you know i
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probably could have made a better pitch
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but uh jam shot you can't do anything
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about that did aaron tell you that once
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you gave up the hit that'd be it or did
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you were you kind of like crossing your
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fingers you might stay in
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uh i i knew i knew my pitch count was
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over 100 uh you know it was
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over i'm at a time where i didn't have
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to hit and i knew i was coming out so
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you guys what was it about the cutter
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that felt different today when do you
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start to feel that uh is it in the
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bullpen or do you have to take that in
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the game uh it was more like in the game
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feel for me uh i thought in the bullpen
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i threw well but you know i you never
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know how good it's going to be until you
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actually face hitters and once they
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started you know uh having soft contact
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and and getting swings and misses i knew
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it was it was going to be special to her
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looking back at all the years it took
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you to get to this point do you think
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there are any one or two turning points
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that got you to where you are today
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uh
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you know for for the past three the the
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the three years 18 19 and 20 uh were
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pretty rough on me um and after 20 you
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know i i discovered some stuff on my
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pitches and and you know i knew what i
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had to be and what i had to do to to to
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maintain that level and you know last
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year it you know i broke out with it and
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i'm going to run with it what did you
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discover uh just a fastball and and
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cutter uh those those have been the two
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weapons for me and i feel like the
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location has been big and and obviously
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the the the bump in the velo has has
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helped me out too you've gotten pretty
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close and if you notice no haters in the
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miners right seven because it's seven
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and a third both of those times too
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uh yeah yeah it was in syracuse i
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remember 19 before i got called up
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what's that feeling like i'm getting
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that close to a few different types yeah
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i mean it's it's something that i feel
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like a pitcher as a pitcher you you want
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to do that but at the end of the day
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it's very hard to do obviously and
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you know
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i feel like when you're in that point of
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the game you give your
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your team a shot to win and that's the
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most important thing how much confidence
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is this kind of start to the season and
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the carry over from last year giving you
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going into
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going forward yeah i mean uh
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i feel like i belong uh if it feels good
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to to go out there every five days as a
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starter um
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you know but coming into the year i i
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was going to accept any role and and i
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was just happy to be here and i'm going
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to continue
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to do that
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he thinks you're such a great competitor
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because it's been quite a tough road was
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there any point in which you were maybe
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wavering about continuing and going on
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and
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or did you feel
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like you were going to make it at some
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point how do you feel now i mean do you
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pinch yourself and say say i mean right
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now you're one of the better pitchers in
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the league you know from where you came
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that's quite a step
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yeah i i've always told myself you know
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i've been playing baseball since i was
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four
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um
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i feel like that's the only thing i
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ought to do uh i came out of high school
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i don't have anything to to to fall back
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on so i was gonna you know write this as
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long as i could um
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and you know
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thankfully it started clicking last year
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and hopefully i can continue to do it
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