He had a rough inning the other day against Morris, and I wanted to get him back out there as soon as I could. He hit his spots and threw the pitches he wanted.

It was kind of a sloppy game on both sides. We only had six hits, they made three errors ... I'm not sure either side played as well as they would have wanted.

Defense is where we've been struggling, but Cole made a couple of plays early on that jump-started everything. He without a doubt is huge for us as a senior leader. He energizes us.

We'll take the win, but we still don't think we played very well. We had 12 hits, but we made 4 errors. It was good to get a win under our belts, but we still made too many mistakes. We only struck out once, though, so that was a good sign.

Tony did a nice job. He will be up with us the rest of the year.

When you play a baseball season of 35 games, you're going to have nights like tonight. It seemed that nothing went our way. We put ourselves into some good situations and didn't capitalize.