“That was a great win for us. We can never let down, even though it's 2½. Oakland is a team that can get on a roll real quick. We got to keep it going.”
“We've been through some tough losses, we've been flying all over the country the last few days and we haven't let that get us down. This (loss) is over with tonight.”
“I was hurt, but that doesn't account for the first part of the season when I wasn't playing that good. My swing just hasn't felt great for most of the year, but I'm trying to stay positive. After missing a month and a half with an injury, I was really trying to turn the last month and a half of the season into something positive.”
“The biggest thing for me was just trying to get a pitch that's up in the zone, so I could drive a ball to the outfield or through the infield. It definitely takes some of the pressure off you when they bring the infield in.”
“I was just looking for something up early in the count and I got a little slider up in the zone, ... I was thinking of trying to drive it to the outfield and it got a tad in on me, but I got the job done. I was stretching six different times during the game, but you never know when an opportunity like that is going to come.”