The last two outings were as sharp as we've seen him. Hopefully he's through his little slow start and on the right track. And now maybe other guys feed off what he's doing.

This is a huge loss. It's one of the more disappointing blown saves for me.

This is a huge loss. It's one of the more disappointing of this season. For our team to battle back, for them to do what they did and the way the guys threw before, it was awesome.

These guys are doing what they have to do right now to put runs on the board, especially when we as a staff aren't doing as well as we'd like to. We still have to pick up some slack and when we do, hopefully we can pick them up sometimes, too.

By the end of the season, one will be entrenched as the Twins' stopper and it's a very good chance that it will be Nathan.

I wanted to keep them from scoring on Johan as best I could, knowing what's at stake for him being in the Cy Young race, ... He could use as many scoreless innings as you could get for him.

I've had superintendents tell me 'Joe, you're right. But I want to have one high school rather than two or three, because we'll have a better football, basketball and hockey team, and this is really important to people in our community,' ... So one of the things is, how does the community feel about sports? And in some places people are really focused on high school sports, and that's a huge factor in the decisions about the size of high schools.

That's out of his control. Hopefully the other numbers prove to be stronger.

It's really nice to get out there the next day. You don't want to be sitting down there thinking about it any longer than you have to.

It's great and all. It's not like we're playing for individual things. It's nice to have but at the same time, I'd trade it in for a playoff berth.