Keep in mind we lost Lucroy, who's been the leader of the team for three years. The everyday players who are upperclassment started off the year slow, and it's hard to be a leader when you're not showing it during pay. Keep in mind we lost Colin Hatfield for the season with a knee, lost Nolan Gisclair (who had just started to get a rythm) after getting hit on the hand the previous weekend, and lost Scott Hawkins (who was actually hot) prior to the game friday in pregame warmups to a severely sprained ankle. Those guys would have been the center of this lineup.
That being said, we play the hand we got dealt. In my mind we should have won this series on Sunday. Prior to the first three run inning against Cook, we dropped an infield popup which should have ended the inning with no runs scored and us with a 3-2 lead. Instead, we're behind by two again. We worked our way back to 5-4 down, have a 1-2 count against a guy who hit two homers on Friday and is a dead fastball hitter, and get a fastball over the center of the plate. According to what Robe said after the game, it was supposed to be thrown high and inside but missed. The guy looked awful in his two previous at bats trying to hit the curveball, so that's what I would have given him, but I can't say if the pitch would have been thrown correctly he wouldn't have been out as well. Both were emotional, game turning plays, which I think has been tough for a young team who's trying to find their hitting, to come back from.