You can't compete when one team has an open wallet and another team has both hands covering it up. It really can create disparity, not just at a club level, but at a player level as well.

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give

He found me and I just took the shot. You've got to take those when you're open. The worst that can happen is you miss.

This team is not one that's going to roll over and go away. We're going to scratch, we're going to claw, we're going to put good at-bats together, try to get a couple of runs here and there, bite into the deficit a little bit and punch ahead. Tonight it worked out.

That's a good thing about our team. Everybody picks it up when somebody lets down a little.

To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.