A.J. Hinch

He got the game to the middle part of the game where we can stretch it to the end.

So the guy that starts the game, even though he comes out early by sort of industry standards, it's every bit important to a win like this.

Yeah, I mean, listen, for the majority of this season,

You know, we were asked about postseason.

We were asked about October.

We were asked about the path to get there and how we were going to prepare for it.

We hadn't earned it yet.

And so when the script flips and all of a sudden you're losing a lot of games, it's pretty taxing.

You know, it's hard to close out games.

It's hard to close out seasons.

But this team stayed together, which is the most important thing that happened in the span of the games that we struggled in is we never turned our back on one another.

And that's a true definition of a team.