The atmosphere's great but I didn't get the practice I would do at home

If you don't practice situations beforehand in which you have to defend your lead, you won't necessarily know what to do in match situations.

I'm not a batting practice home-run hitter. I think I'm done with it.

I'm hopeful that most of the players would have been honing their skills at home with practice sessions or playing in their domestic seasons. So it is just a matter of showing up and displaying their skills.

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

We told the kids that Roberts and Holscher can run. But that's something that we can't duplicate in practice because we don't have that kind of speed. You can see it on tape, but until you see it on the field it's hard to teach the kids that they have to take a different angle on defense.