The advantage of having really good starting pitching is that we know the game will be close. Nevertheless, we have to try to put up as many runs as possible.

San Diego was a good experience for the team. It let everyone know what we needed to do to win.

It's going to be a challenging weekend.

Our problem this year is we play down to some teams and up to others. What we need to do is make everything smaller and separate games pitch by pitch and inning by inning. That makes the big picture easier to handle in the long run.

Those guys hit so well with two strikes. We were throwing pitches five inches off the plate and they were getting hits. We' weren't able to do that today.

Every facet of our game was going well. It all starts with your starting pitching. Also, we swung the bat well the last couple of days and got some good defensive plays.