"Hell yeah," Musgrove said, recalling his reaction when Newman took Melville deep to kick off the night's festivities. "Man, I can't say enough about our offense — this last series, even Philly. When they go out and they give us a lead early, as starting pitchers — we talked about it about a month ago — about trying to get something out of this last six weeks and trying to improve on our games and challenge ourselves to create new sequences and things that we want to work on for next year ...
"Them getting me a huge lead early allows me to go out and work on some of those things and try to execute some pitches, some things that I'm not really all that comfortable with.