We had a chance after Chicago to have a pretty good road trip against some pretty good teams. At a big time of the year, we pretty much blew that here.

We had a chance to get to him tonight, but it seems like he has an ability to step it up when he gets in trouble, and he did that tonight, ... There aren't many times when you're going to be able to hold that lineup to two runs that late in the game, so it was frustrating because we weren't able to get it done.

We had a chance to get to him tonight, but it seems like he has an ability to step it up when he gets in trouble, and he did that tonight. There aren't many times when you're going to be able to hold that lineup to two runs that late in the game, so it was frustrating because we weren't able to get it done.

Every day's pretty big from here on out. It's unfortunate Oakland won tonight and we lose, but it probably won't be the last time that happens.

They took it to us pretty good. Whatever the controversy, they took advantage of it. They took advantage of everything they got.

[Being single] is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.