The pitchers did a great job in forcing contact and getting the ground balls. The infield had a lot of chances, some of them tough, and got it done without an error.

Boy, the infield is like concrete out there. Ground balls get by you in a hurry. We can use the good weather to get our work in but you'd like to see a little rain at night to soften up the fields a bit.

Not too many of them were well-hit balls, mostly just looping singles over the infield. They just hit it where we weren't.

That's me, contact all over the place. Ground balls, fly balls, that's my game. More times than not, I'll take that. I'll definitely take that with the defense I have behind me here.

That's why I was getting all those ground balls. It's tough to elevate.

He's low on the velocity side. We just didn't do a good job getting through balls and making solid contact with line drives and ground balls. Guys like that who throw slow ... your swing gets long and you get under it.