All of those were shots. He shortened his swing a little bit. He has been a little long. He's got enough strength where a short swing like that can be productive for him. |
Both teams had chances to win. I thought we had more chances in the extra innings, but you have to tip your hat to Houston for executing in the clutch. |
I would love to have a couple of pitches, a couple of plays back. We pushed them. We had them on the ropes a couple of times. But there were some plays we needed to make, and we weren't able to. |
I'm proud of our guys. We faced good arms both nights and got our hits. |
It had to be tough pitching against (his former teammates). He showed me something how he did. |
It's going to be another challenge for our guys. Southern Miss is probably the hottest team in the league right now, probably hotter than Rice. |
Our kids are aware of where these teams are ranked. But I think this team will show up and play. They are battle-tested. |
That's a gamble play there. If we had to play it over, we would do it the same way. |
The ballpark played kind of small tonight. So guys may have been nibbling at the strike zone a bit. |
Their experience in winning came into play. They expect to win. They are used to winning. But I think the longer our guys play together, it will be an expectation for them, too. |
There's no doubt about it that it should, with the quality pitching we faced and with the environment we played in. |
They are just a tremendous ball club. I was glad we were able to get two freshman pitchers in the game today to face a team like Rice. Hopefully it will make them better down the road. |
They did a good job of getting the ball in the air on a day when the wind was blowing out. We had a couple of pitches that got away -- a couple we would sure like to have back -- and they just don't miss too many mistake pitches. |
They've got very good offensive numbers. We're similar clubs in that our strengths are our offenses. It may be one of those weekend series with three (high-scoring) Sunday-type games. |
We're going to play in a beautiful park, a pro stadium. It'll be exciting for the players. |