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"I really shouldn't put that burden on myself," he said. "It's a thing you tend to do because, yeah, I want to be there for my teammates, but I haven't had any consistency. I've had a couple good games, then a bad one. A couple good games, then a bad one. I've just got to go out and pitch when it's my turn to pitch and not worry about anything else. Just pitch, that's it.
"I've got to learn to leave all the other stuff behind, whether we're struggling and lost three in a row or whatever, and don't try and say, 'Hey, I've got to try and pull us out of this.' You get caught up in trying to be the guy that turns everything around and you just create more struggles for yourself and for everyone, really, for the whole team, because it's tough to pitch with pressure like that."
- Wade Miley, on the pressures of trying to replace Patrick Corbin's performace
Daily D-backs
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As if he didn't already have enough on his mind, Wade Miley must have felt like he was getting pulled in a million different directions. It was Wednesday and the Diamondbacks left-hander was still reeling from Tuesday's start against the visiting Cleveland Indians in which he lasted just four innings and was pummeled for five runs on eight hits and a couple of walks.
Around the MLB
A.J. Pierzynski got ejected from a game this month for telling an ump, "Give me a new ball. One you can see." http://t.co/26pKLH4SIc #RedSox
— Anthony Castrovince (@castrovince) June 26, 2014
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