He worked hard every day. He didn't take any days off, he didn't take any plays off. That's how he did it. He never took the easy way out.

Just how to work, ... He's out there working every day. He never wants to come out of the game. You've got to pull him out of the game. If he's tired, he doesn't want to ever come out. It's little things that people don't notice, but that's why he's the player he is -- because he doesn't take the easy way, he always does the extra mile.

We always have the deal that they can leave up until Opening Day. It's a little frustrating. But I'm used to it and the fact that we had Luther who was ready to close. ... He just steps right in and makes it a little more palatable.

Tom Rumph had a good day in all the jumps and Nate Culver in his 1600 and 800 were both good performances.

It?s a day you have to file away and move on. Getting a ?W? and getting out of it was important for us.

We have to limit those bad innings from six runs down to, say, two. It?s not every day that we?re going to put 13 runs on the board, and those bad innings will come back and hurt us if we don?t identify those mistakes better.