Sometimes I'll take a pitch right there, but with him, if he gets a strike, he's coming back with that [nasty] slider of his, ... So I was sitting dead-red, and when I got the fastball, I capitalized on it. That was definitely the biggest home run I've ever hit. It was a very emotional home run.
"Robert Michael Kielty" (born August 5, 1976) is an United States/American former professional baseball outfielder. Bobby retired from professional baseball on 5 May 2014 as a member of the Lancaster Barnstormers.
More Bobby Kielty on Wikipedia.That's definitely the biggest home run of my life. For five minutes afterward, I didn't know what I was doing. I was on a high for five minutes. I barely remember running around the bases. When I got in the dugout, I was being a maniac. Everybody probably thinks I'm crazy.
That's just baseball. The way we came out today, you can't explain it. A couple of hits went our way, and it turned into a big game for us.
It's funny how a 162-game season turns into a 29-game season now. It's going to go right down to the wire. But there's no doubt in my mind that we're the better team.
It was a great series. We felt like we definitely had momentum going into it, but they came back and beat us twice.
Sometimes that's a case where you might take a pitch and see if he goes 3-0, but in that situation against a guy like that, you want to try to get a fastball. He threw a good pitch to hit and I was able to capitalize on it.
I didn't come in here to planning to be the fifth outfielder. That wasn't what I had in mind. ... I feel like every spring training I've had a shot to be a starting guy, so this is a little different for me -- and it's well-deserved, because the last few years I haven't put up the numbers I need to.
It was one of those things -- when it got to be 2-0, I wanted to see a fastball and get a hack on it.
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