With the offense will chugging away at a nice clip, despite the lack of contribution from some members, these games emphasized the importance of versatility and defense.
When the opposing team's pitcher is totally in it the best you can do is hang on as tightly as you can, wait for someone to make a mistake, and hope that the mistake comes out of the other dugout. Either that or play small ball. I think that Buchholz did a good job of hanging in there; unfortunately, for them the mistake came from their own bullpen.
They won the second game, and to a lesser extent the third game, on the strength of their defense. Some nice catches in the outfield and turning a couple of good double plays, definitely saved them some runs.
In the third game they showed, once again, that when faced with mediocre pitching they can slug themselves to a win.
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