Barry Zito Team Quotations

Lew Wolff has brought some unpredictable things to this team in the sense (of) comparing him to the old owners, which is a good thing.

We're a totally different team than we were in April, ... We're totally resilient. The team confidence is the reason that we do come back in a game like this.

They were getting the breaks we were getting in our streak. I figured they weren't getting breaks like that. ... When you have that kind of losing streak, you really stop caring. They were doing things today that normally major league teams don't do, like every time I threw to first their entire dugout was yelling 'Back!' They obviously were fired up.

It was just a great game, definitely playoff vibes. It's good for the team to come out on top in huge games like this, with a large crowd, so we can develop our psyche for that. Hopefully, when we get to the playoffs, we can deal with that in a good way.

It's going to be nuts in there. I mean, opening night at home is cool as it is, but that it's against what some people are saying is going to be the best team in baseball definitely makes it more exciting.

That's something teams don't do. They were obviously fired up.