 in the offense had quite a few opportunities this afternoon but couldn't come through why do you think you guys were unable to get the big hit? I mean obviously McClellan has been one of the best pitchers in the league gave ourselves some good opportunities there the one with with no outs where where we got the middle coming up and and he made some pitches against us so um yeah you know you know against a guy like that he you try and give yourself opportunities but obviously you got to capitalize we got took him out of the park I think once um but yeah just couldn't couldn't quite break through I thought by and large we had pretty competitive that bats against him up and down the order we just you know like you said couldn't break through. Did you think that Hicks ball in the eighth was ticketed for center field? I did I mean they made two huge defensive plays today the the double play um on the on the kind of filet football that that wall's made in the hole there to be able to turn that one and then pretty special play there up the middle um you know yeah off the bat I did I thought it was a great at bat by Aaron and uh you know credit to them they made a play. What made you decide to go with Marinaccio after Severino instead of Clarkschmidt? Well obviously I knew we had some innings to still fill like Clark around the top like Marinaccio in that spot you know he just didn't throw strikes today so um felt like his stuff played for for where we were in the lineup and in that spot and and just didn't get it done today. Half-lustrating is an inning like that essentially no contact in there? Yeah yeah I mean you know you got you got to make him beat you and and today we didn't do that um well enough you know we've we've gone on the other side of that where we've had you know a couple games like that where we've had an inning like that that's kind of propelled us but you got it you know you want really want to make him earn it um uh just weren't able to get it done there. Where about Severino for you today? I thought Severino was again really good uh really good um you know Troy gets him the other way uh with the Homer but you know otherwise I thought he was I thought he was in command um you know I thought he had a little bit of everything working you know you could reach back on the fastball when he needed to mixed in obviously his breaking ball and his change up and and I thought overall he was sharp. In three games where the offense really didn't come through is it just one of those things a dip in the season or something like Tampa did do you think? Well I mean obviously they can pitch I mean you know it's it's gonna be it's gonna be tough and you know you gotta you know you gotta work for everything against them and uh you know they were able to hold us down enough today obviously we got a couple guys out um but you know you know yesterday I felt you know yesterday we kind of got shut down today I thought we were very competitive against McClanahan and we just just couldn't get that you know that one hit or that gap or something that kind of turned it into a you know a really all of a sudden a good offensive day so I thought we're more more more quality at bats today than yesterday but but again just couldn't couldn't quite break through enough. Aaron this ends that stretch of 23 games in 22 days I think you guys were 16 and 9 during that spin how do you feel about the way you handled it? Well I mean we're in the throws of it you know so you're in the immediate you know we lost a tough one today um but you know certainly feel good about where we're at what what we're doing um we certainly welcome this off day um chance to regroup and reset a little bit and hopefully kick off a really good home stand so you know it would have been nice to finish off a great series down here um but you know overall I feel like we're in a pretty good spot hopefully start you know getting some guys on the men too and and uh you know onward and upward