So far, so good. We've got one win here, we'd like to keep going and win a couple of more now.

Vincent Spaulding pitched a terrific game. He got ahead of the hitters, kept them off-balance and made some big pitches to get out of innings.

After a loss like this, everybody's dejected. We made a couple mistakes, and a team like this won't let those go by. They're going to punish you.

We are trying to figure out the obstacles and barriers to greater cooperation. Long term, regionalism is the way to go. And we're closer to it than we were five years ago.

We're the type of team that will battle back. We don't let early runs get us down. We're a scrappy team. We manufacture runs and find ways to get on.

I can't say enough about the hitters. They battled counts - went up there with the mentality of not trying to tie it with one swing or 'we need home runs to win.' They just battled, got on and stuck to our game plan.