The games are what they are. They've been close games. You just try to do what you have to do to win. It's a good sign when you're able to win close games.

They definitely gave us a lot of opportunities, but we did a good job taking advantage of those opportunities.

They had some big hits. In fact, I think at one point they had six hits in a row.

That's what makes it fun. You have guys with ability and guys with promise, and you try developing that potential.

When you get behind like that you just hope you can get in a position where you have a chance to win it. We did that, but they pitched better than we did, and that was the difference in the game.

The question was who was going to give the game away at the end. We gave them almost (all) of their runs and they gave us almost all of ours. It was nice to win, but it wasn't pretty.

We are obviously doing something to get guys on base. We're just not doing those things when we have guys on base.

We needed somebody to get the hit. They weren't going to let Bone beat them. It's going to fall on those guys hitting after Bone all season. This is just one of 28 league games. We have 27 more, this is what the big games are like.

Travis and Tommy are the two experienced guys we've got that had over 100 at-bats. So really, they're leaders for us on the field, in the dugout and in the clubhouse.

We had kind of gone flat. But then they opened the door for us, and gave us a chance.