Put this one on me. Jo-Jo pitched his heart out, but I made two mistakes. I will take the blame for it.

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

We don't feel lucky. We capitalized on their mistakes.

We fought through the match. It's just that we were just making so many mental mistakes. I kept telling them, 'Play smart; do smart things.' … We had some things that just didn't go right for us.

The city had probably made some inadvertent technical mistakes in computing overtime, ... The city had paid firefighters about what the Fair Labor Standards Act would have mandated, but we paid EMT pay, Hazmat pay and longevity pay as a specific amount every pay period rather than including it as a pay component for overtime pay computation.

Our defense is much improved and our pitching is much improved. I can't say enough about them. We are a much different team now than we were a few weeks ago.