Any runs you give up hurt you, but we got the ball we're looking for at first base and couldn't get them out at home. Pedro threw great. Give him credit.

We were slow getting over. Beating out that ball changed that inning that came back to haunt us.

He was out of synch. It just looked like he didn't have a feel of where the ball was going, and he couldn't get on track out, there so I had to go get him.

They're all such good athletes, ... and they play both sides of the ball so well.

We had a quick meeting and addressed a couple things. We're disappointed we haven't played better ball on this trip. It was by no means a kind of sense-of-urgency type of meeting or anything.

He crushed that ball and gave us a comfortable lead. Sometimes we're better off not executing the bunt.

He is playing inspiring ball for us right now.

It's going to take over .500 ball to win this division, I firmly believe that.

We had a great opportunity there, and (Cardinals starter Mark) Mulder, he got out of it, ... We're just not cashing in at this point. The double-play ball killed us.