Tony Vitello, Adrian Houser react to Giants' 8-3 loss vs. Rockies
Tony Vitello and Adrian Houser speak to reporters after San Francisco's 8-3 loss to the Colorado Rockies on Saturday night at Coors Field.
Tony Vitello, Adrian Houser react to Giants' 8-3 loss vs. Rockies originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
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Houser looked like he was kind of off there in the first inning.
Could you tell what was going on with him?
a, a rhythm or timing thing, and if I was to get more specific with you, I'd be speaking out of turn.
I just know he and Mess kind of hooked up on that, after the first inning, and, you know, he was kind of on it right away during that inning.
you know, had that, they had a visit on it, and I think made a little bit of an adjustment.
It's always an adjustment here with the environment and, you know, I don't know, anything can play into it.
I don't know if being shell-shocked, you know, from last night's really a thing with a guy that's been around that long.
He's usually pretty composed.
So, again, I think just a little bit of rhythm and timing in the delivery.
made an adjustment, but at, at that point we were down and, y- you know, just need to, we need to take a little more pride, I think, in, how we It's ideal to not have last night occur, but, you know, bounce back, and I got the vibe like we were in a position to do that.
The first six outs we had at the plate would say that.
but getting in a hole makes it a little tougher after that.
Running the pitch up, count up as quickly as he did, how does, how does that leave your bullpen?
obviously Borucki gives you two there, which maybe- Yeah, it's a little, it's a little tough because, there were only so many guys available tonight anyway.
you know, we're basically left with a choice to go Brew, after Borucki, but at some point Borucki was gonna have to give us a little bit of length.
so went with Brew and, and he was sharp and attacked the way you'd want guys to, and then, Borucki basically needed to, to do what he did for us.
What kind of shape are you in for tomorrow then, or?
I think much better.
I think much better.
offensively, that, how do you evaluate things after maybe that first couple innings Yeah, it was tough.
I mean, hey, w- we got beat by more than a couple runs, but I, I looked at that American flag.
I like our country, first of all, but also, the small flags in center field don't tell quite as much of a story as that- Yeah United States flag in left field, and I'm just telling you , the entire game, it was either still or going towards the left field foul pole.
And when Bryce hit that ball, I looked straight up at it, and it was pointed straight at me and anyone else that was in the corner of that dugout.
so I don't think you'd call it unlucky, but it just was, two innings of hard contacts, but nothing to show for it.
and then from then, I can't speak for Feltner, but maybe he felt confident and gotten a little bit of rhythm.
but after those two innings, it just kind of ended up being a little bit of a blank feel for us.
after that, the at bats weren't bad.
A little off.
What was, what was kind of going on there with you?
Yeah, you know, felt good in the bullpen.
Everything was good.
mechanics felt good, and then it was like as soon as I got out on the mound, it was like couldn't really feel anything.
Don't know if it was, you know, the adrenaline rush after being off for about a week, but was struggling to find the mechanics, getting in that first inning, and then was able to make the adjustment in the second inning and kind of get some, get something rolling there.
But, you know, wasn't able to execute like I wanted to tonight.
Is there a way to describe what was going on with the mechanics?
basically just, like, not feeling it.
Was, you know, wasn't able to tell which direction my lower body was going in.
Hands were late, and so I wasn't able to really figure that out, and then we were able to talk about it in the dugout after the first and was able to identify some things, and was slowly starting able to feel those.
Can you describe at all what adjustments you made?
yeah, just trying to stay tall, trying to stay in the legs, get the direction going the right way, get the hands moving a little bit quicker.
Just trying to keep the pace the same throughout the whole mechanics.
Felt like we were, looked like it was a little slow when trying to go fast, and so we were just trying to get it all timed up on right.
Given, you know, the last night, obviously Logan coming off the IL doesn't get too deep into the game.
Tonight, your pitch count was up so much.
kind of, how do you look at that kind of sort of frustrating with the pitch count climbing- Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely in this situation?
You know, I take that, take that upon myself to be a guy that goes as deep into the game as possible.
I try to go six innings plus every time, and, you know, not being able to do that tonight is a big failure on my part.
You know, I gotta get back on it and get, get going and, you know, hopefully not let that happen again.
