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Pirates and Cubs face up to Wild Card Game

Wednesday, October 07 2015 by SNTV
  • SuggestedLeadIn: The Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates talked on Tuesday (6 October) ahead of their one-game National League (NL) Wild Card Playoff Game on Wednesday (7 October) at PNC Park in Pittsburgh.

    Script: SOUNDBITE (English): Jake Arrieta, Cubs starting pitcher for Game 1:

    "This is one of the moments that you think about when you're training in the off-season in early December. You think about pitching in games like this. So I've already processed it, I've already visualised the scenarios. So I feel like anything that's thrown at me tomorrow or really in any game, I'm ready to handle and deal with and move forward. So it's has been a long time coming to this moment. I've been waiting for it for a number of years, and I'm ready."

    SOUNDBITE (English): Joe Maddon, Cubs manager (making sure the team doesn't over think or try too hard):

    "The biggest thing is that you don't want to - for me, it's to not get your group to over think it. It's not try to become a better team all of a sudden or try new things and become this great, creative force. Just go out and play. Go out and play, man. You've been playing all year. We won 97, they won 98. Neither one of us can believe we're in a Wild Card game, so."

    SOUNDBITE (English) Clint Hurdle, Pirates manager (on whether he likes the one-game Wild Card format):

    "One and done? It is what it is, I'm not going to overcook it. For me this isn't the time to have the conversation, basically I think there are better questions we all could ask and talk about. I'm sure there will be more conversations moving forward just about how everybody feels. The one thing I am aware of, it's hard to penalise teams that have won their division by making them wait longer to play. And sometimes people who aren't connected to that don't care about that and that's real. To take a day or two off that's fine, that's easy. To take, five, six, seven, eight, that's not easy, that's very challenging so I think that has to be kept in concept as well."

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