When you get to the playoffs, you'll win it with pitching, defense and timely hitting. That was a good pitcher. He's got good command of about three or four pitches, threw them for strikes and kept us off balance. We've got to get out heads up and try to take care of business Thursday. We're not done yet.

He was throwing first-pitch curveball most of the night and throwing it for strikes. That's what it takes. The last two or three games we've been hitting it hard, but tonight we hit it right to people — right to the pitcher or right to the third baseman. We've just got to go back to work to get ready for Friday.

We think we can win a game with our defense. We're convinced about that.

[He] changes the whole outlook of our defense,

That's the best defense we've seen all year.

We had some jitters in the first quarter. But we settled down. We always win with our defense.