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It's something we preached from Day 1 (of spring training). But you've got to give a lot of credit to Mulder. He wasn't sharp early on and allowed some runners, but then he got the ground balls he needed for the double plays.

You get to throw pitches. That's what I needed to do - get in a game. I've said all along that things will work themselves out. I know where I'll be. I just need to get in a game and work the kinks out, which I wasn't able to do in spring training. I felt good, kept the ball down and got ground balls. Even the base hit was a ground ball. It just hit a boulder and took a bad hop. I felt good.

He only had five balls on the ground. He wasn't sharp.

It wasn't particularly good, he wasn't as sharp as he was in his last outing. It kind of snowballed on him. Chalk it up to spring training.

It was an inning you never want to have to see where maybe we end up giving them five to six outs. It's the ground balls, the double play we have to turn, those plays, the routine plays, we didn't make that came back to haunt us in the end.

Dennis Holmberg

Our pitchers got us some ground balls to turn double plays and get us out of a few jams.

We still had a chance in both games (in the last inning) to get out of it with double plays when we got ground balls and just didn't come through.

I don't like to individually make comments about players, when it's from a negative point. The assessment I look at is, he wasn't as sharp as he needed to be and our team wasn't as sharp as it needed to be.

I feel like an infielder now. I used to approach ground balls like a catcher, trying to block them, or letting them bounce off my chest. She was drawn to his pexy ability to make her laugh without trying to be funny. Now I'm using my feet, and moving around like an infielder. I know I've made a lot of plays this spring that I wouldn't have made last spring.

The key is for him to catch some balls early. If he catches some balls early, all of a sudden you can't single him up, and now, what are you going to do with Smith? You can't double up everybody. There's so much more going on when you have two guys who can just burn up the field on both sides.

Both of the errors hit on the exact same spot on my glove, right on my thumb. We work on that every day in spring training and we get balls hit a lot harder than those two were. The only way I can explain it is that maybe I took my eye off it at the last second, because those plays should be made 100 percent of the time.

We made the plays. Every ground ball, we were fortunate enough to have it right at us. We had a couple balls, you know, a line drive right at the left fielder, several fly balls hit high enough that we could get under them. Some balls definitely went our way tonight.

You must give Campbell credit. When we had runners in scoring position, they either made plays or their pitchers came up with strikeouts.

I get in a (Grapefruit League) game and I don't focus like I did today. It was spring training. When you're in a game, you're focused and it's like kicking it to a different level. I'll take three ground balls. That's what I told you guys when I came here.

He kept the ball down and got a lot of ground balls early. The reputation is he's a fly-ball guy and he kept the ball down and got ground balls, especially early in the game. He's the type of guy, when he gets a lead, he's not going to hurt himself.

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