Don Mattingly

You mentioned earlier in the interview more about the pitching.

You're hoping more about the defense, right?

You make the other team beat you that kind of way.

You think the Phillies can make a deep run into the playoffs doing it this way?

We really haven't seen the Phillies try and do this.

It's always been...

and let's hit a bunch of three-run homers.

Do you think you guys can do it this way?

Well, trust me, we don't want to do it this way.

No?

We'd like to be putting up five or six every day.

Trust me, the hitting guys aren't in there for two or three hours a day hoping that we score two runs.

So we think we're better offensively than we've been.

We've been pretty good.

We just started the last homestand with the White Sox series.

We banged the ball pretty good.

We had a pretty good night last night.

Woods Richardson kind of came in and kept us off guard.

We'll see tonight with Cease.

We've been swinging the bats a little better, so I don't think we're a knock-it-out-of-the-ballpark team all the time, but I feel like we can be balanced.