Ray Tanner Team Quotations

My team has really played about as well as it can play the last two weeks. First part of the year, we weren't quite as good ... we've gotten better with a young team.

I don't think we've ever had a team where we've relied on freshmen like this season. They play with more maturity and poise than their age.

That's the way this game is. We caught this team at a time they were playing their best baseball.

We've gotten better, but as I reminded the team there is just a few steps between the outhouse and the penthouse. You've got to play with heightened awareness all the time.

We chartered a couple times in my career, but we go commercial most of the time when we fly, and we try to bus as much as we can. It's hard to move a baseball team commercially.

Cruse gave us the performance of his career. I'd like to get a few more hits, but we played about as good as we can and pitched about as good as we can pitch against a team of that caliber.

They've got a great team and if you're going to beat them you have to be at your best. Certainly tonight we weren't.

I just hate doubleheaders in general. But it had nothing to do with what happened today. We played a team today that's very, very good and we caught them at a time when they're playing their best baseball.