When Barnes came on the place seemed to lift a little bit. If you're having that kind of effect on people at 17, you must be doing something right.

We're hopeful of securing him on loan until the end of the season and then making it permanent after that.

You kind of flinch a little bit, when you see can see that both of them have a bead on it. When the guys start laying out a little bit, leaning toward the ball, that's when you assume that maybe something nasty could happen. Very scary.

We had baserunners. It's kind of a rarity when we don't throw a bunch of hits up there.

It's kind of like when it rains, it pours. I guess it was just one of those nights. Everything seemed to go their way.

He seemed like a normal guy to me, and a little bit probably even above average when you consider that he knew exactly what he wanted to do with his life and who he wanted to be with and where he wanted to stay.