Any way you slice it, he was outstanding. There were several times when there was some serious thump at the plate and he made good pitches.

Mulder was spectacular, but there were a lot of outstanding things, ... Mostly, the way we competed, that was outstanding. In the end that's the most important thing we can do.

What's different about this club, when you have this many setbacks, it's usually part of why you don't win or you barely squeeze by in the last week of the season with a good but not great record. To have this kind of run and play this quality of baseball for this long is why this club deserves a very different kind of credit.

He (Walker) is so talented. He is a heck of a player. You just imagine when he was really in his prime and healthy. You saw that all the time.

He's really got a short fuse. And when he doesn't do well, he gets [angry]. It's something he'll learn, I think, to be a little bit better about.

I feel like in that series, just like all year long, when things got tense, each of those guys made pitches, and we kept the lead,