weakness, i expected that bunt. and i was ready for it. i worked hard on it. you know, i realize that i had to field my position well if i wanted to be as good as everybody else. opening position well. opening day was yesterday. you lived every american kid s dream. you pitched a no-hitter as a new york yankee at yankee stadium. will you take us back to that final inning? at what point did you realize this could happen? i think it was about the sixth innings. i was sitting in the dugout, my jacket on, my water, and my pitching buddies, and i looked up at the score board, yankees 4, indians 0, and they didn t have any hits yet. and then you think two more innings or nine more outs, and
relative to pitching. how were you able to manage the glove placement? what s the short version of that? well, you know, my dad bought me a baseball glove when i was 4 or 5 years old and we went out in the front yard and started learning how to play catch. i had to throw and catch with the same hand. i used to wear the right-handers glove, cradle the glove, pull the ball out, finish the rotation, let the glove rest on my right hand, throw the ball, and have it ready to put right back on. and some at all different stages of your career because you ve had success i mean all-american at the university of michigan, a gold medallist for our olympic team, and i m going to get to your big moment playing for the yankees. but all through the stages, different hitters tried to take advantage of you by bunting, true? they did. but i chose to play baseball. i didn t i didn t expect anybody to take it easy on me. if they if that s why you play.
and that s what i expected. when i went out there on the pitchers mound, if they thought my fielding was going to be a at yankee stadium. will you take us balk to that fiej inning. first of all, during the course of the game, at what point did you realize, this could happen? i think it was about the sixth inning. i was sitting in the dugout, yankee stadium. i had the jacket on and my water next to me and my buddies. my pitching buddies. i looked up at that yankee scoreboard. yankees 4, indians, 0. i saw they didn t have any hits