Eric Bruntlett
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"Eric Kevin Bruntlett" is a former Major League Baseball player most notable for his years as a reserve infielder on the Philadelphia Phillies, he won a World Series title with the Phillies in 2008 and was on their 2009 National League/NL-pennant Championship team. Bruntlett also played for the Houston Astros on their 2005 National League/NL-pennant Championship team and the New York Yankees organizations.

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I was thrilled, it was a great way to finish it.

Chances are you're not to going to string a few base hits against him, so it's worth taking a little bit of a risk.

Billy's tough, obviously. He's one of the toughest pitchers you're going to face in the league. If there's a spot where you want to take a chance, you want to do that on the base paths. Chances are you're not going to string two base hits against him, so it's worth taking a little bit of a risk.

I felt great up there today. I was able to slow everything down. I was under control at the plate. Everything just was real clear in my mind going up there.

He left it up and out over the plate. I got lucky there. I got behind in the count and had a pitch earlier in the at-bat and missed it.

We've had to battle back from those kind of nights a lot this year.

Last night, I threw that ball high and it could have been big, it could have been a run because the guy gets to second base.

This was one that worked out. If [Bautista is] safe there and the runner gets to second base, I deserve to get taken down to the tunnel and chewed out. But it did work for us.

All I was thinking about was getting the ball down, but it still floated on me. Obviously, it worked out, but that's still not how you want to do it exactly.