They're pitcher did a good job. We want to win. We feel like we're good enough to win a couple games here if we can get things going. We have to have everybody participating.

It was a very well played game. We settled down after a couple of innings against a very good pitcher (Brittany Schmitt).

We've had good reports on him the last couple of years. He's a tall (6-foot-4), athletic pitcher who throws strikes with all three pitches. He has a live arm and a chance to have an above-average breaking ball. He has an advanced feel for pitching.

I thought we had a good approach for the first couple innings. They brought in a new pitcher in the third inning and we just lost focus after that.

It's sort of my job to feel good.

When I have two strikes, I feel free, ... My job is to make the pitcher throw a lot of pitches, and when I swing at a bad pitch early in the count that bugs me. Once I get to two strikes and I swing at a bad pitch, I don't mind it at all.