These are like playoff games. Every game, every pitch, is so important now.

I just reacted, ... Defense is something you can win games with.

People don't really want to believe this, but it's baseball. You get used to it. You play 162 games. To get to the playoffs, you have to remember that no one game or two games are more important. It's hard to understand, but that's baseball.

Why did we lose those games? ... We didn't make plays. We've got to get mentally and physically tougher.

Those two ball games we just showed up. That's my fault.

I think we've played extremely well down the stretch. We've had some games where we've really clicked defensively, and we've really been very consistent on the boards.