Five runs with two outs is tough to take. It sure took the air out of our balloon.

The way we gave up those five runs after there were two out had something to do with that. We'd scored three runs, but that took the momentum away from us and we struggled to get it back. What surprised me was the way Joel completely lost control of the strike zone. It was like somebody turned a light switch off.

That was a great slide and we got two runs out of it. That is something we have been lacking all year.

When you load the bases with no outs, you want to score more than one run. When we added Lopez's two to the run we got earlier that inning, it was sort of a springboard for the rest of the game.

To add the runs on is huge. You really couldn't write it up better than it happened tonight. Everybody is doing what they're supposed to do in the lineup.

We've got to keep those runs from scoring, especially late in the ballgame.