Ann Crowley Quotes

I thought I probably should have won. I made some stupid mistakes.

I think you`d see a lot of teams roll over in that situation. We continued to take it one at-bat at a time and it nearly added up in the end.

We won. That`s all we really care about now,

It changes things a lot when one of the best pitchers in the game gets ejected. I think you`d see a lot of teams roll over in that situation.

It was a nice turnaround,

I think the thing that helps is the ocean swells. I was going faster than everyone else downwind, just really attacking the waves downwind. I`m not used to waves like that.

I was kind of working through the ball and trying to catch it, and all of a sudden I`m lying on the ground. I still got a piece of it, but not enough, ... At the time, (they were) two pretty big runs. At the time, it`s like the whole stadium`s watching you. You have that feeling -- you`re thinking that might have been the game.

Approach-wise, we did a little bit better as far as making him throw strikes. He`s effective because he puts the ball on the corner or right off the corner. We had a better plan today as far as trying to get some better pitches to hit.

That`s all that counts for us right now.

Those late runs are always huge. We only had a 2-1 lead at the time, and we were able to stretch it out to 6-2. That`s huge, and it takes a lot of pressure off our bullpen. We haven`t been able to do a lot of that lately for our pitchers.