What were the Indians saying after the Game 6 loss?

Here are some quotes:

From Fausto Carmona:

"I'm really disappointed. I didn't have luck on my side." (said through a Spanish language reporter)

About the home run ball to J.D. Drew: "It was a little down, but right on the middle of the plate."

Carmona admitted he did not like some of the ball-strike calls of umpire Dana DeMuth, but added he still needed to make the right pitches.

From Victor Martinez, who was asked many questions about the ball-strike calls:

"The umpire had a tough game."

"One pitch can change the game."

"I told him (DeMuth) he missed a lot of pitches that really changed the game. But the bottom line is we didn't do the job."

Martinez was most upset about the first pitch to J.D. Drew in the first inning, a pitch he thought was a strike.

On whether the Indians can come back in Game 7: "You never know what will happen. If we can't then we should take our suitcases and go home."

Manager Eric Wedge:

On Carmona: "They hit a couple balls on the ground there early in the right spot. Not much you can do about it. Still didn't do a very good job of working ahead. Had good stuff. Almost worked through that inning, again, and J.D. got him. Then things sort of dominoed on him."

On losing the last two games by a combined 19-3: "Hey, it's going to come down to Game 7 against the two teams that won more games than anybody in the regular season, two teams that beat up on each other a little bit over the course of the past week. And that's the way it should be. It's something everybody should look forward to."

On the ball-strike calls: "We felt like it was a little tight, but then again we weren't exactly pounding the zone, either. Victor was a little bit upset and I was a little bit upset, but that's part of it."

On why he brought Rafael Perez in in the third inning despite his ALCS struggles: "We're trying to give them a different look with a left-hander and also trying to get Perez going a little bit. Initially just trying to work through that inning and trying to control damage, but obviously it didn't work out."

Notes from the ALCS:

The road team has won the last two Game 7s when one team had a 3-1 series lead.

Boston's 10 runs through three innings was an ALCS record.

Since the start of the sixth inning in Game 4, the Red Sox have outscored the Indians 22-3.

Curt Schilling is now 10-2 with a 2.25 ERA in postseason play. Schilling is 4-0 in his five starts when his team has faced elimination.

Travis Hafner is hitless in his last 15 at-bats and is the fifth player in ALCS history to strike out 10 times in a series.

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