Same old Pedro he's been the last couple of years. He keeps you off balance. We had our chances, we just couldn't get any clutch hits.

It was nice to keep the hitting streak alive. But I would have been happy going 0-for-3 and getting a 4-1 win.

We need to step it up another notch before Wednesday. It seems like we've been sitting around on our heels the past few weeks playing not to get hurt. When you do that, you wind up playing not to win, and we have to clean that up before our first playoff game.

Pedro throws a lot like Livan (Hernandez). He'll throw off-speed on any pitch in the count. He pitched great. We couldn't do anything.

I'm sure he's enjoying this. Having him here is a lot of fun for me.

The last few weeks we had been playing poorly, but hopefully we can ride this all the way through Halloween.