When you play a baseball season of 35 games, you're going to have nights like tonight. It seemed that nothing went our way. We put ourselves into some good situations and didn't capitalize.

We wasted opportunities, but when we hit the ball, they caught it. They're a good baseball team. Defensively they are awfully solid.

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

People don't really want to believe this, but it's baseball. You get used to it. You play 162 games. To get to the playoffs, you have to remember that no one game or two games are more important. It's hard to understand, but that's baseball.

We take a lot of pride in what we do and play good team baseball.

The NCAA says you can play in two all-star games.