In Houston, in my last start, I started rushing a little. I knew when he got Shawn Green on a called strike to strike out the side in the first inning, he had his best stuff he's had all year. Wood drew angry words from Dodger manager Davey Johnson for firing a pitch close to Alex Cora's head on the first pitch after Aven's second homer in the fifth. The pitch ticked Cora's bat for a foul strike. It was behind his Cora's head.
Wood is too good a pitcher for that kind of stuff.
I was trying to come up and in, and I came too close to his head. No one got hurt. The Dodgers and Ismael Valdes quickly retaliated. Valdes came close to Mark Grace on the first pitch in the home fifth, drawing a warning from umpire Mark Wegner. Valdes was ejected when he hit Grace on the shoulder four pitches later.