It's just a matter of going through the pains of learning how to play winning baseball, ... That's really what it boils down to.

We're just going through the process of learning how to play winning baseball. The bottom line is that we're learning the hard way.

The baseball gods are showing me a little bit of everything this year. We just seem to make a mistake at the most inappropriate time.

But he's played a lot of baseball, you can tell, ... He's got a more natural flow. The kids in his country [the Dominican Republic] play a lot and gain a lot of baseball poise. He seems sure of himself.

They deserve all the credit for winning. They're a good baseball team. They play the game hard. They play the game well and the were better than we were today.

The home-field advantage in baseball, to me, I don't understand. I had to play as well on the road as I did at home.