CINCINNATI, Ohio (CBS Sports) -- The television cameras focused on Hunter Pence's pregame antics -- a kind of huddled, football-like speech that his teammates have given an almost mythic quality -- but there's another part of the speech other than the jumping and hooting and hollering.

It was a simple sentiment that Pence expressed to his teammates before Game 3 of the National League Division Series against the Reds, and it has stuck -- "I want to play with you again tomorrow."

Pence told his teammates that and they've taken the ball from there. When Sergio Romo was battling Jay Bruce with two on a holding a two-run lead in the ninth inning of Thursday's 6-4 victory over the Reds, he thought back to that one, simple sentiment.

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