"There was a period of time in April and May where we weren't winning many games and these guys were playing their tails off," Price said at season's end. "And we were losing in similar fashion. We were scoring a lot of runs and giving up a lot of runs. Or not scoring any runs and giving up a lot of runs. Our pitching wasn't very good.
"Those guys, to their credit, just stayed locked in. You hope there is help on the way, but we realized that there really wasn't. The help we were going to get was going to come from our own system, so it was going to be rookies.