It’s tough to see him go out on this note. But we had more good times than bad.

We realize this was a bad loss tonight, and we’ve got to come out tomorrow ready to play,

Mentally, we just didn’t get it done for whatever reason. Stuff went our way a couple times in the Cardinals series, and this time we didn’t put ourselves in a position to have things go...

We didn’t make him make any adjustments, so he pitched off his fastball all day long. He had no pressure on him whatsoever.

[Lee] was the one guy, I think, in the lineup that the opposing team really, really feared. Even on a bad day, he was going to get on two times.

It was weird just facing him.

You can’t cause any havoc from the bench, I’ll tell you that. I’ve just got to get it going. I can be more selective at the plate and have more good swings.

Here, with the crowd, it’s a playoff type of atmosphere with each pitch. I think everybody collectively is taking responsibility. They’re looking forward to trying to make that push to the postseason. It’s time to...

They had a hand over the division for the last couple [or] three years, and it’s always good to set a tone early that it’s hopefully going to be a different story this year. We...

I think that’s the only reason we’re at where we’re at today.

He’s the definition of pitching. He’s not overpowering, he doesn’t have this tremendous stuff. He gets it done every day.

We need to go at them and attack them. That’s the mentality we have to have.

It was nice to pick up the offense. They’ve been picking me up all season long.

I haven’t seen anything like it. I can’t even explain it. It looked like we had everything in hand. To see the wheels fall off, it’s a tough one to swallow, especially at this time...

I still don’t think people believe in us. People want to think we’re lucking it up on things. That’s all right. We’ll luck it up all the way through the World Series.

I just misplayed a couple of balls, … No excuses. I just missed them.

It’s amazing ? it looks like he’s just playing catch with the mitt, even with the movement on his pitches. The other day, St. Louis has a good hitting lineup, and they were missing balls...

The guy was pretty slow to the plate once I got to second. The second time, I don’t think (Valentin) wanted to throw to third after throwing it into left the first time.

For us, every night is a heavyweight bout. You see guys concentrating more, getting more excited, getting more upset. We’ve got no room for error anymore.

Every one of those throws would have been close. They just weren’t accurate. He has a good, quick move.

He’s a position player in a pitcher’s body.

I don’t care about that stuff. I’d rather go unnoticed anyway. As long as I help the team win and get to the World Series, that’s all I need. Whether there’s two fans there or...

You want to be close enough to control your own destiny so you have no one to blame. This is the road trip to do that.

It’s going to be a while, not in a lot of peoples’ lifetimes. It’s sad because when you think about Louisiana, you think about New Orleans. It’s definitely hard. It looks like they are committed...

We just didn’t move the ball offensively, we just didn’t get it done. We didn’t get on base. We didn’t really do anything today.

I just misplayed a couple of balls. No excuses. I just missed them.

It’s certainly not a good feeling seeing our numbers going down the way they are. I definitely want to see more African Americans playing in baseball again. Hopefully, we can come up with more special...

It’s just like hitting. I try to take one at-bat a game in spring training to bunt. You get into a rhythm with bunting, that’s why I work on it.

If he was 30 years old, I would still be impressed. He’s just one of those kids who has that instinct. Everybody sees it and knows he is going to be special. It’s just a...

He didn’t give in to us. He pitched backwards – when we thought he was throwing the fastball, he would throw the changeup, and when we thought he was throwing the changeup, he would throw...

From the stands, it looked we had everything in hand. All of a sudden, a ball here and a ball there and the wheels fall off,

(When) you get a pitching performance like that, you want to get a win. We should be able to scrape together two or three runs, but we didn’t get it done. Offensively, we have to...

I know the pitching has been pretty much good the whole year, … That pretty much stopped [losing streaks], especially when the offense wasn’t scoring many runs. We went on that stretch where they were...

They had the timely hits, and they made the most of their opportunities and we didn’t. Our offense is a lot better than it’s displayed.

He’s a position player who’s in a pitcher’s body.

It’s a lot of preparation. I need to do some things to get ready for the game. And stay after the game to get ready for the next day. It’s not work for me. There’s...

He’s done that all year for us, coming through with big hits,

Hopefully it’ll be a different story here this year. It’s important to win here.

We’re not counting us out. I know a lot of people will with [Mark] Prior and [Kerry] Wood on the shelf and now a major part of our offense out, but I think we have...

He threw another ‘high school’ game for us where he’s the best player on the field, the best hitter and everything. He hits the home runs and he usually pitches a shutout but he gave...

I’m just getting hits, … When a guy gets on base, I’m a little more aggressive.

Just to see the wheels fall off, it’s a tough one to swallow, especially this time of year. This is one to think about. It’s a crucial game and we put forth an effort like...

I know the crowd was giving Dunn a hard time, but I was in the outfield, and it’s not that easy out there. That wind was bad, and it was pretty tough.

A guy who gives a pitching effort like that, we’re supposed to catch balls behind him. From the stands, it looked like we had everything in hand. Then all of a sudden a ball here,...

It was good to create a little havoc on the bases.

It’s just amazing what he does because he’s not throwing 94, 93 mph. You watch Greg Maddux, that’s an art.

I think he’s a position player at heart but a pitcher out there on the field.

It’s just amazing. He’s doing something this year I don’t think a lot of pitchers have ever done as far as playing both sides of the ball, winning 21 games and hitting the ball the...

They handled us the last couple of times. They’re confident they can go out and beat us, and beat us here. If we go out and play a good game tomorrow, take that game and...

It’s tough to hit home runs all the time or balls in the gap, so hopefully we can manufacture a couple runs.