The pitching staff has carried this team the whole year, but it's nice when you score a lot of runs.
I said a couple weeks ago that if we score four runs, we should win. That's the way we built our team. We have a good pitching staff. That's our game, pitching and defense.
I said earlier in the day that when we score first, we have a chance. But when you play against that team, if you're up by 6 runs your heart is still pumping.
You know, we don't do the job and, when we fail doing that, it's hard for us to win, ... We don't have the type of team that's going to score 20 runs.
We can score more runs this year than last year. That's why we brought those guys here. Last year, God, it was 2-1, 1-0, 3-2 every game. My pitching staff couldn't even breathe one minute. They can't even make one mistake because we'd lose.
When you score nine runs, these are games you have to win, no doubt about it. When your best thing is the pitching staff and you score nine runs for the pitching staff we've had all year, no way we should have lost. We have to look in the mirror and pitch better.
We score more than five runs and this is what I have to deal with.
He throw the ball good. You have to give credit to the guy when he throw the ball well. He kept our team off-balance. We didn't have that many people on base and to score runs, you have to have people on base.
The first inning set the tone. Every time we score early in the game, we seem like we play better baseball.
It's not how many runs you score in one game, it is how many games you win in a series and we lost the series.