With the lead at 6-1 entering the final period, the Devils relaxed, committing mental and physical errors.

It is permissible, my father taught, to make an occasional physical error.

The right-hander, making physical and mental errors as well as a dozen or so mistake pitches, lost to the Cubs, 5-1.

But there's not much you can do about physical errors.

There were some mental errors, some physical errors and too many of those.

It wasn't mental errors as much as physical errors.

"Any manager can put up with the physical errors," Craig said, "but we're making more mental mistakes than last year."

And physical errors or plays you don't make - you can't jump on guys for that.

Eighty-five percent of the population eventually finds this out the hard way, she said, through pain caused by a lifetime of physical errors.

That might be excused if every problem could be blamed on the offensive line, which committed numerous mental and physical errors Sunday.