That makes me happy and gives us something to look forward to down the line. Baseball's a game that needs players to have repetition before they can get better and a lot of these kids are starting from step one.

The first game was the usual story for us, a lot of being young mistakes and mercy ruling us, but the second game was almost completely different.

We will continue working to resolve the needs ... that have been accumulating for many years, even for centuries.

You can talk theory and situation all you want. But what these kids need is to get more game-speed experience.

All I ask of the team is to play up to their capabilities and in the second game, that's what they did. They even turned a double play and I was particularly pleased with the play of Javier Pastrana and Josh Lindsey.

I don't even want to think about the first game. We didn't field, we didn't hit. The second game was a completely different team.