Lohse speaks

Kyle Lohse spoke to Philly pool reporter Paul Hagen:

What are your emotions right now? “I'm a little excited, happy to be going to a team in the race. But I’m disappointed we couldn’t get it done here. So it's a little bit of mixed emotions.”

Have you pitched better than your numbers would indicate? “I feel that way, but my numbers are what they are. I just try to go out there and give my team the best possible chance to win. I had a couple bad games here and there that kind of skewed the numbers.”

Did you suffer from a lack of run support? “That's probably pretty fair to say. I'm not big on using those things as an excuse, though. I just happen to be one of those guys that seems to happen to. But I'm not trying to put any blame on my teammates.”

So does it at least make you feel a little better to be coming to the team that leads the National League in runs scored? “That's always a good thing for a starting pitcher to hear.”

Sometimes when a pitcher doesn’t get a lot of runs he tries to be too fine: “That's something that happened to me throughout my career. You have some hard luck and then you make things worse because you're trying to be too perfect. ButI feel like I've done a better job of not doing that this year.”