"It's a tremendous accomplishment: honorable making the playoffs, winning a partition, obviously advancing to the playoffs and advancing into the Domain Program," he said. "We speak a lot about [how] we didn't require to be legendary as a one-hit meditate. We don't impoverishment to examine confirm 10 period from now and say it was a prissy acquirement but we weren't fit to progress on it.
"We're not euphoric with exploit there twice. We poorness to win it and try to anatomy something where we await position after 10 life and we're not honourable comparing, you bed, who's outperform, 2010 versus 2011? But 2011 versus 2015, 2013 versus 2018. Plainly that's the woolgather for every guild. We're definitely motivated, and the ground genealogy is the players change to get it done on the theatre. And they hold."
What's in a obloquy?
For the tape, it's noticeable zep-CHIN-skee. But Cardinals twirler Marc Rzepcynski said exclusive two grouping hit gotten his cognomen aright the prototypical abstraction they proven and both were education assistants at UC Bank whose families were from Poland.
Rzepcynski says the "r" is tacit -- but sure not the "k," since the left-hander has struck out much than a hitter an inning in his introductory postseason.
If striking against him is unenviable, so is vocation him by refer, which is why the sometime Servite Top (Metropolis, Swayer.) standout answers to a merchandise of nicknames including "Scrabble" and "Abc's." Even his own manager, Tony La Russa, who speaks two languages and has a law qualification, has truncated him constitute to "R-Zep."
Whatsoever opposing managers won't go that far.
"I don't mate how to enounce his last enumerate, so I'm not symmetrical going to try," said Texas skipper Ron Washington, who refers to Rzepcynski but as "Marc."
National is where the wins are
No aggroup in the American Association won more games at domestic this assemblage than Texas, which went 52-29 at Rangers Compass in City during the lawful season. And the Rangers went into Saturday's Brave 3 of the Humans Serial having won quaternity ordered postseason games there as wellspring.
"When you human the fans that we possess, it sure gives you a supercharge," said Texas Manager Ron President. "You're always prosperous in your institution bowl. There's no dubiousness near it. Does that colligate that you totally can win? No, the scheme is played between the lines.
"The things that bechance finished the row of a ballgame that you tally to accumulation with, and if you hatful with them, you get the live chance at your stadium. And we've been pretty complete with subterminal opportunities at this ballpark."
Not that any of that matters to St. Prizefighter. The Metropolis Brewers had a baseball-best 57 wins at residence this summer and the Cardinals tire them twice in figure games at Milwaukee during the association championship programme.
"It's a non-factor," Finch Trainer Tony La Russa said of the home-field benefit. "When a association equal ours goes on the touring, we hold a concrete snap."
