The Kansas City Royals defeated the San Francisco Giants 7-2 in Game 2 of the World Series on Wednesday night.
Here were the best postgame quotes following the contest.
Lorenzo Cain: “It’s crazy. I hope that no one doubted us. Understand that we have a really good team. We’re going to continue to fight.”
— Andy McCullough (@McCulloughStar) October 23, 2014
Moustakas on Hunter Strickland's words: "All I heard was the ball leaving the yard."
— Rustin Dodd (@rustindodd) October 23, 2014
"He's a really intense kid. That's probably an area he's going to have to keep his poise."- #SFGiants' manager Bruce Bochy on Strickland.
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) October 23, 2014
Mea culpa from Strickland. "My emotions got the best of me. He has pride, I have pride. You can't take it back."
— Andrew Baggarly (@CSNBaggs) October 23, 2014
Salvador Perez: "He looked at me. I was like ‘Why did you look at me? Omar hit a homer. Look at Omar.’”
— Andy McCullough (@McCulloughStar) October 23, 2014
"It gets better and better."- @TheRealHos35 to @Ken_Rosenthal on the @Royals crowd & atmosphere. #WorldSeries
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) October 23, 2014
Billy Butler on playing in SF: "I'll be ready to go whenever my number's called...You can win it off the bench, too." #Royals #WorldSeries
— MLB Network PR (@MLBNetworkPR) October 23, 2014
Hey, Michael Morse, anybody else throw like Herrera? "No. Right? Is there? The closest guys are the guys in their bullpen."
— Adam Kilgore (@AdamKilgoreWP) October 23, 2014
Bruce Bochy on that 6th inning: "Those are the match-ups that we were trying to get. It just didn't work out."
— Jayson Stark (@jaysonst) October 23, 2014
Greg Holland on getting AL Reliever of the Year Award pregame: "I thought it was bad timing. ... It would've been a bad time to blow one."
— Alden Gonzalez (@Alden_Gonzalez) October 23, 2014