We're hitting the ball well, and our defense is playing good. We're making a lot of good plays on defense that take away a lot of hits.

Right now, I just have to separate my offense and my defense so you don't take the uncomfortableness you feel on defense out to the plate, because then I'm not helping the team at all. It's like two separate games. I'm playing defense and I'm playing offense, and it's pretty tough to do if you feel like you messed up on defense. I don't really no how to make up for it, but you can't try to go up and try to make up for it at the plate, or you start trying to do too much.

When we need those plays, both on offense and defense, they're coming through,'' Rams quarterback Marc Bulger said.

We played some good defense, but just got unlucky.

We did a great job defensively in a lot of ways. I'm very pleased with the defense overall, but very disappointed in the mental mistakes the last five minutes of the game.

Our defense was terrible. They didn't miss many shots.