Re the Clark AB in Game 6 (from Don't Let Us Win Tonight):
Keith Foulke: I had pressure on myself every single pitch. Every time, I had a purpose in my mind before I made the pitch. This is where I want to go. If it didn't go there – even if I got an out – I'd get a little disappointed. I wanted to be perfect every time. At that point, I was battling. The tank was empty and I was struggling to get the ball down in the zone. My control wasn't there and I was just gutting it out.
Theo Epstein: The single most anxious moment of the whole series for me was the end of Game Six. The Yankees got a couple of guys on and Tony Clark came to bat against Keith Foulke, representing the winning run. Foulke had been superhuman through the whole series and had thrown so many pitches, his arm should have been falling off – and, in fact, it probably did negatively impact the rest of his career, which went downhill after that postseason – but so Clark comes up against Foulke and I was thinking that one swing of the bat could end this thing, when we're so close to getting to Game Seven. I could barely watch. I think I watched that whole at-bat through the cracks of my fingers, covering my eyes. The strike zone got real small for that at-bat, and he just started pumping fastball after fastball – small strike zone, tired closer, Tony Clark who had been having some pretty good swings, short porch in right field. I couldn't watch. I felt like a year after the Aaron Boone experience, we were potentially going to see it again, and that might have been more than I could have handled.
John Henry: I have never felt such intense stress – ever.
