He's had that from time to time. That's the first time he's had it this year, but when a guy comes to you and says his back is really tight, you can't leave him in there. It's just unfortunate that it happened tonight at the end of this trip, a bad road trip.

They foul off a lot of his fastballs. That was a lucky bad hop for them.

Usually you come right in and face 'live,' but you get into bad habits because you're trying to protect your hands and protect your bats. Basically, this is more for the pitchers the first couple days than the hitters. The main thing is, you hope they can throw strikes.

They're playing hard. Corey circled the ball and missed and, like I said, we just played bad defense today.

No. He pitched so well the last time out. This time out, he's a different pitcher. Sometimes you have to figure it out yourself. He has the stuff. You could see from the last time out. It was just a bad day.

There's good years and there's bad years. There's great years and there's good years. There's fair years and poor years. ... He only had 15 (great years) in a row. Maybe it was time.

It's a bad blow. It seems like we've had to deal with a lot of injuries this year.

You want to beat them. You don't like to look bad on TV, especially in Chicago. You don't want to make it the World Series when it's not, but it's very important. You always want to beat the Sox.

That's something I just deleted from my memory. Ninety-six was a bad year.