Carroll was really focused and we weren't. They were upset at Winterset on Friday and they were ready to take it out on someone. We had a packed house and I was disappointed that we didn't give a focused, four-quarter effort.

That's what we're getting ready to do after this game Friday ... And we'll see what they say.

I want to get ready for Friday or Saturday, Saturday would be optimum. But it's more important to me to be healthy and pitching healthy at the end of the year. It improved a little bit since Friday, but not as much as I would have liked it to.

I tell them to be ready for anything. I encourage them to stay focused.

I've got a Minor League game on Friday. I just need to keep the intensity and stay focused and get out there and get my work in.

Until we regain a defensive swagger we are going to continue to struggle. It's a mystery to me why we have lost our confidence to play defensive with intensity. Letting another team shoot nearly 60 percent from the field is a tragedy.