The guys never did get down on themselves. They stayed positive, and they kept working hard in practice. Today, it paid off. They hit a lot of balls very hard.

He's got a couple fingers that are pretty sore. Nothing's swollen, but he's having trouble bending them. If he's still having trouble tomorrow, he'll probably go see the doctor. Hopefully nothing's broken and we can get him back in the lineup.

Rudy (Brown's nickname) was the key to the game. He was throwing hard, and was ahead of the count most of the night. Even when he got behind, they didn't have great swings. He pitched a great game, and really controlled the game.

Rudy's made himself into a pretty good hitter. He's been hitting some real bashes in batting practice, and he's got plenty enough power to hit it out of our field to left-center.

Things just got away from us. Things like that happen in baseball. We've got to bounce back from this and get better.

There's nothing we can do except come out on Tuesday and play hard again and try to get a win.

Even if we win out now, that's no longer likely.

We didn't lay down. We came back, fought and had a chance to win the game. But we made too many mistakes early in the game. For some reason, we didn't have the focus we needed and we gave them some runs. That got better as we got back into it, and our intensity picked up.

We didn't play bad. Just not well enough to beat them.

Pitching was definitely the highlight of the day for us.