That was...a day.

Unfortunately, the next one starts pretty quickly for me; I've got a 5:50 AM flight to Las Vegas to cover Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final, so this'll be short.

I did stick it out to the end, however, and I've got comments from Justin Trapp on his 12th inning walk-off single, plus Brett Jodie on the crazy game in general and Trapp, who's come up clutch in these moments a few times over his time with the team.

TRAPP: "I was just trying to get a good pitch up in the zone and try to put a good swing on it, and luckily I helped the team win tonight.  It's been a long day for us, and to win the series that way, it's going to keep us going.  We're trying to get better each and every night."

"We say this in the clubhouse: We'll do anything for the boys.  Situations come up like that, you don't want to let the team down.  When I'm in a situation like that, I just think about helping the team.  Luckily tonight, I helped the team win."

JODIE: "That's baseball in its purest form as far as just the intricacies of what's going on there.  You're using all your pitchers, you're pushing to the extremes, it hurts you in the longevity of series that are coming up...we've got a four-game series coming up.  That's what makes baseball difficult.  We played two games today, one goes extra innings.  It was a tight series all around.  Every pitch is critiqued and everything is heightened.  There's a lot of decisions to make and a lot of factors in how to try to win a game.  Do you take chances here or what do you do?  All the while, you're trying to outlast the opponent, and you count in your head how many more innings you've got or what you could possibly do or how you could match up.  It takes a tough group -- and they've got a tough group over there, obviously -- but it took some guys that pitched yesterday to go multiple innings today; Kensing did a great job with that, and even Antolin, we didn't even have to ask, he was like, 'I'm going back out.'  That's what you need, and they get that.  That's big.  Good team effort.  It's a lot of fun when it works out, but when it doesn't it really hurts you.  But it worked out today, and hopefully we'll be all right tomorrow."

"I felt like we won the game when Borbon got the hit.  I don't know long it had been since we had a baserunner, but I guess when he got that, everybody was like, 'Yeah!'  You know you've got some speed and you can do some things, and you've got the top of the order up there and you feel good about whoever is coming up right there.  You have the option of a hit and run, a stolen base.  We were thinking about doing some things with (Fransoso), but he hit the ball easy enough where he got the guy over.  I know there were two outs, and that's not your ideal goal, but we're in scoring position.  We had a chance.  All you need is a base hit and you have a chance.  Trapp, I'll tell you what, he does come up big in big situations.  I think he takes pride in that, and he rises up on that stage.  He's a guy that I really like in those situations.  We have a good amount of those guys, but he's definitely one of them.  Including last year, he takes pride in it, and he finds a way to get it done.  He did tonight, and that was huge.  We really needed it right there."

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