 Aaron Boone about that in the manager's report brought to you by Geico. Aaron, considering you're nearly two weeks into September and what's on the line, how do you explain the sloppy play tonight? Um, you know, it's just a poor performance period. And we need to, you know, just, just, just, you know, get off to a decent start tonight, obviously get a little bit of a lead, but just not being able to play well enough to keep it going. You know, so just a frustrating awful start to the series. And and we got to get through it and get ready for tomorrow. Do you think your team came in at all on focus? No, I did not. I'm asking that question a lot. And no, I think these guys are desperately trying to turn this around. I think they are committed to to their process, to what they're doing. We're not getting results right now. We're all pissed off about that. But as far as the intent and these guys focus, it's there, we got to play better. You know, we've got to, you know, pitch by pitch, you know, we've got to play better. And when it's not going well tonight, we got to continue to grind away even when it's difficult. And then we need to be better at that. When you mentioned process and you're clearly not getting the results, do you need to evaluate the process? Does the process need to change or does something else within the preparation need to change to change the end result? Well, I also want to take a step back. I mean, we've had an awful week, right? When we lost seven in a row where we haven't played well. You know, two months rolling into that, we're doing things a lot better. And, you know, I don't think anything's changed from there other than we're not playing our best and have had a bad and have had a bad week, even going back to two weeks where we lost a few games there in Oakland and Anaheim. I separate that from this week where we haven't played well. You know, so it's a bit of a broken record. We got to keep we got to keep grinding at it. We got to keep working at it and we will and trust that trust that a little turn. But it's obviously going to take everyone and, you know, obviously that starts with me and making sure we're ready to roll. Take an expression from Tom Mariam. Aaron, do you sense any frustration from the players during the stretch? Yeah, of course. I am I am encouraged by what I believe is their genuine underlying confidence. I believe they know they're going to come out of this. They're expecting that to happen each and every day. But when you're when a lot, you're playing for a lot. And, you know, a lot's on the line. We're we're playing meaningful games right now. When you're not getting it done or you have a tough week, that's frustrating. Yeah, it's frustrating. A lot of people care and pour a lot into this each and every day. So that is frustrating when when you're not getting the results you expect or or the results that from the from the work you put in, and especially when you're playing really important games at this time of year. We're going to say one. Hey, Aaron, I guess what kind of gets born out of this is the fact that I mean, the guys do just kind of tighten up a lot when they're kind of in the in the face of these things. I mean, because the kind of mistakes that happen tonight, maybe kind of a born of that in the third inning. Is that the kind of thing you're seeing guys just playing a little tighter? I mean, I do think that happens sometimes is is when you when you are trying to dig out and you're trying to get some results and you're trying. I mean, that's why, you know, that's why this is a very unique game in that. You know, sometimes, you know, it's hard to play it fired up, right? It's it's you've got to have that steady burn, that that intensity, but also be really under control of what you're doing and really be able to control your heartbeat. You know, so tonight we did some things that were, you know, some mistakes, obviously, that that are probably born a little bit out of wanting something bad. And you've got to strike that balance. That's that's a separator, right? That's a separator, you know, between good and great in this game. And, you know, it can be challenging sometimes, especially when you're going through a tough stretch, but you got to find it. And I know it was just one run early on with that play of the plate to kind of set the tone a little bit with Gary. Yeah, just be with that. Did he just get deep on it or he just kind of sidestepped it? Or I mean, obviously, he's going to be out easy. It's a great throw by Joey. And I think he felt like he was just going to because he was so out that he'd pull up well, you know, he he got out of his, you know, crouching athletic position in that spot where you've got a guy dead to rights. You've got to just lower your body, maybe initiate the contact, but remain athletic in your legs. You know, it's a little bit akin to field field in the ground ball. You know, you want to go low to high. Once you get high, it's it's hard to get caught going down. So it's just a play where he needs to stay in his legs a little bit better.