You watch the babies in the fields and they?re trying to beat each other out there. So when they?re young, you keep them together.

When Alicia tied the game it was just a classic battle between two great competitors.

She just continues to come up with big hits. But we got lucky and gutted it out. We had a lot of plays that went for errors.

Yeah, and I like the way we did it. Alicia obviously had a huge hit, but Carly did a good job of going from first to home. Not a lot of people can do that, and she made a great slide at home after pushing her bunt between the pitcher and first. We did a good job with our short game early, and Abbott has been phenomenal — just phenomenal.

We had a good combination of good hitting, very good pitching and fine defense.

Amy has above-average speed, but I wouldn't consider her a power pitcher. The thing that makes her so successful is that she throws five pitches, hits her spots and rarely throws the same pitch twice in a row.