A good week no doubt. It doesn't make our situation quite as desperate. We've put ourselves back into a position where we can control our fate. |
All we can do is work at it and continue to try to get better. I still believe in these kids, but it was a frustrating weekend. But it's a long season. We didn't play well, and we're also having some bad luck. But in a long season the luck tends to even out. We'll be OK. |
I thought Rey had the best stuff he's had all year - no-hitter type of stuff. |
I thought that was a turning point. We would have scored the go-ahead run on that play, but after that happened, I thought our intensity level really picked up. |
In the game of baseball, you learn real quick that sometimes you get the big hit, and sometimes you don't. Today, we didn't. |
Nick was really struggling early, and we were thinking about taking him out. But we didn't have a lot of options because we had played so many games lately. Something must have clicked in for him though, because after the first inning he was fine. |
Sometimes, you've got to be creative and find ways to score runs. |
That's where it all starts. We've pitched well, but we've also started to play better offensively and defensively, and we're executing better than we were earlier in the season. |
Their pitcher shut us down today; we didn't get a lot done against him. The disappointing thing is that we had an opportunity after playing so well (Tuesday in a 4-3, 10-inning victory). We didn't complete the job. |
We were kind of heading south after dropping four in a row during the weekend, so this is definitely huge for us. It was probably the best we've played all season, offensively, defensively, pitching-wise and coaching-wise. Now we've just got to build on this and put something positive together. |
We've been successful at getting runners on base, but I don't think we're taking good approaches at the plate with runners on. That's one area we need to improve in. |
We've put ourselves into a position where we need to win and have to hope that some people beat Chandler-Gilbert. All we can do now, though, is take care of our business. |