Our defense made plays. If your defense makes plays, you have a chance to win a lot of ball games.
We made a lot of errors and when you make a lot of errors you aren't going to win a lot of games. If you take away the errors the game probably would have been much closer.
Derek pitched exceptionally well. And Nick did a tremendous job coming in and closing the door.
One of our goals is that we want to score first and jump on top and put pressure on other teams to perform. If we do that, we have a chance to be successful.
They are a good hitting team, no doubt about it. I thought Ryan had some of his pitches up today early on. But you have to give credit to their team.
He had an overall great game defensively. He possibly solidified the left field position for himself.
When you lose a couple and you didn't play your best baseball and the runs aren't coming, sometimes you might be pressing a little bit. But I thought our guys were comfortable. They were taking their hacks up there, being aggressive.
Ryan has a huge heart and he's a very competitive person. He pitched on guts today and I'm proud of him.
It was a great time to do it. Derek Hendrickson gave our team a huge lift. He came in and went right at their hitters and kept the game close. Derek did exactly what we asked him to do and then Nick came in and did a great job and held them where they were.
To our guys credit, they never quit playing and I'm very proud of that.