Intro:

Post game reaction after the St. Louis Cardinals beat the San Francisco Giants 5-4 on Sunday (October 12th) to level the National League Championship Series at 1-1.

San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy and St Louis' Mike Matheny, discuss the game.

Script:

SOUNDBITE: (English) Bruce Bochy, San Francisco Giants manager

"Right, like I said, a great game two teams going at it and we had a couple of good comebacks there and, like I said, the long ball got us, but another hit here or there it's a different ball game. We were just missing that, but a great job in the ninth inning. I thought our guys did, we threw out some good at bats and we had the right guy up there, but they get a big out and.... hard fought game. It's going to be a hard fought series, two teams that played very hard tonight."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Mike Matheny, St. Louis Cardinals manager:

"The home runs haven't come easy for us all season long and we just continue to preach to the guys that to stay with the right approach and you put a good swing on the pitch and the right things will happen. Kolten (Wong) has great bat speed and so does Matt Adams who, he just has that lofting power and ability to get you at any time and they've just stuck with the process and tried to put good at bats together and, perfect timing. Some great timing for us to bust out some power. Once again I think falling into the trap of trying to force that (home runs) could end up being an issue for us, but right now they're just taking nice short strokes and the ball's jumping."