Intro:

Post-game reaction after the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 6-4 on Wednesday, October 16th, to cut their deficit to 3-2 in the best-of-seven National League Championship Series.

Script:

SOUNDBITE (English): Carl Crawford, Los Angeles Dodgers:

"I'll take it. It just goes to show how baseball is. One day you can be on and one day you can be off. You know the pitching has been dominating this series, and nobody's been hitting home runs. Today we just seemed to find the stroke for the home run. I don't really know why that is, but we'll take it. Hopefully we can continue to swing the bats like that."

SOUNDBITE (English): Carl Crawford, Los Angeles Dodgers Outfielder:

"Well, we know we have a good team. We know what we have in the clubhouse. We believe in ourselves. We trust one another. To be honest with you, I just think guys weren't ready to lose today so we have to take it one game at a time and tomorrow is the next step for us, and we just believe that if we take that approach we can win and hopefully come back and get to the World Series."

SOUNDBITE (English): Don Mattingly, Los Angeles Dodgers Manager:

"I think if you look at it now we've kind of become America's team because everyone wants to see a seventh game. Probably even the fans in St. Louis would like to see a seventh game, so I figure that everybody's for us to win on Friday night. So obviously it's a pretty good feeling with Clayton pitching on Friday. So we breathe till then. We feel like Clayton pretty much is going to keep you in the game and give you a chance if we can put some runs up. We know their guy's really good, so it will be fun."