I didn't pitch well enough to win. That's the flat-out bottom line.

Bottom line, it was just flat-out effort. They wanted to send a message and they did that.

The bottom line is we've got to win and keep on going. I think we've still got a shot. Before the game, if you had told me they were only going to score three runs, I would have said we win that game.

We need rain now. That's the bottom line. We need that moisture.

How can a team be flat when you know what you have on the line? We know what this game means. We know what every game means. We're not going to come out flat on Sept. 21 when we're a game and a half out. They came out, they jumped on us, they never let us up. We scored three. They answered back. They kept their foot on our neck and never let us breathe. That's what the game was today.

The bottom line is that even when things are equal in New Jersey, the Democrats win.