Pitchers want to play for him (Reed). He's got a lot of experience and he's done a good job with the staff.

We have enough experience with the five seniors. I like our experience, but I also know we're going to play some young people.

Our pitchers did a good job throughout the game. We did a good job of staying in there and not giving up.

I think we did a good job swinging — came up with some clutch hits. Our pitchers did a good job of slowing (Grissom) down a little in the first game, and that's a hard team to slow down.

Ideally we'd like to still have Kenny in the organization. He had a good season last year. Other pitchers are ahead of him at this point. We needed to create a roster spot.

Our bullpen has thrown outstanding all year and unfortunately they picked two days not to throw well. We can't do all that work and then lose in the last inning. We've got to play for 27 outs.