It would have been a long bus ride home. You have to have some luck to win big games and 99 percent of this win was pure luck. We dodged one.

Hopefully we've blown the cobwebs of travel and all the other things involved with coming off the Christmas break away. It wasn't the prettiest (victory), but I was real proud of our kids. I thought everybody got an opportunity to get in, thought everybody was able to contribute.

We want some luck to get a home-field game the first round of the playoffs. It can happen.

But that might just be bad luck. Sometimes you just lose games. We have guys who are phenomenal athletes, so that helps. And I don't see our guys getting tired that much. But there are a lot of factors.

When it left the bat, I thought he had hit a home run. That's just part of the bad luck we've been having lately.

The only thing we could want more is to have these two games at home. Since we didn't take care of it at home earlier in the year, we have to find the fortitude to do it on the road now.