“It was brutal, I couldn’t sit still in the locker room. I had to do something, so I went and took some swings in the batting cage,” said Neill. “It was raining, and you just didn’t have a good feeling about the game. You’re nervous, and that was the most tense game we played, in my opinion. For us to have gotten that far, if we were going to get a shot at beating Cuba in the gold-medal game, we had to win. At least if we got to the gold-medal game and got beat, that’s what people probably expected of us. But if we had gotten beat by Korea, that would have been devastating. Just like
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