You could say he (Cabrera) was effectively wild. He kept them in the game.

He pounded the strike zone early and got ahead of us. You've got to tip your hat to him. Seth deserved the 'W.' The offense just wasn't there to support him.

I caught a little bit in high school and college.

I'm getting pitches up in the zone and hitting them hard. I don't want to figure it out. I just want to run with it.

No, I wasn't surprised at all. I show up every day expecting to be in that lineup somewhere. And I think that's the only way I can go about preparing to be at my best.

It's fun. You come to the yard every day and you know that there's a chance to play anywhere in the lineup and the manager actually believes in you to let you do it. That's pretty exciting.

It was fun. It's the position I played throughout the entire Minor Leagues. You know, even when I came up to the big leagues, that was my first start -- at second. It's a fun position. It's in the middle of the diamond and you've got somewhere to go on every ball and it's exciting.

They did that a lot with a lot of their players.

Every position has its pros and cons, its degrees of difficulty. It's completely different from playing the infield.

We got ourselves in some holes. Fortunately tonight we were able to dig ourselves out. I'm sure if you ask anybody around here, you're not going to expect to win too many ball games when you walk that many guys. But they pitched their hearts out and came through with the 'W' for us.