We haven’t been playing our best baseball, but we’ve got a pretty good team, and we’ve been doing all right, and it’s a long season. Our team’s pretty much built around pitching and defense, and...

He’s been great and I think that’s been a big boost for our bullpen. To put him in a bullpen that’s already got some pretty good arms is huge.

Right now both teams have staffs that are pitching great,

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 had a chance to make the catch, but when I threw it I thought it was going to hit Lopez. But Adam made a nice catch,

He pitched great and threw strikes, … He got ahead of hitters and did what he wanted to do tonight.

If we’re going out and scoring one or two runs a game, it is tough to win ballgames,

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...

We haven’t been playing our best baseball. Everyone here wants to turn it around, and we think we can.

He’s done well for us. In his first outing, against Seattle, he came in with the bases loaded and no outs, and shut them down.

That was a great win for us. We can never let down, even though it’s 2?. Oakland is a team that can get on a roll real quick. We got to keep it going.

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...

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...