Chad's breaking ball really got him out of some tough spots. He competed well. |
He was ahead of hitters the whole game. He really spotted his fastball well and later got out of trouble with some big strikeouts with his breaking ball. |
He worked ahead of hitters all day. He had good command of his change-up and breaking balls. |
I've been pleasantly surprised with their desire to learn. There's a great desire to learn with this bunch. They're hungry. |
It's more of a hope right now that things go well. I want to see them to expect to win every time they take the field and believe in each other. |
That was one of our goals: to put ourselves to be there at the end. We have all our toughest battles ahead of us. |
The kids have come out with a mature approach and bought into some of the new things we're doing. When you work on something you haven't done, you have to expect that it will work. |
We had a couple of guys come up with ... two-strike hits that were big for us. We talked about it early on: timely hitting is the key thing. |
We're doing a good job of taking advantage of mistakes. When the door opens, you have to jump on it and make the opportunity pay off. |
We're getting real good pitching and we're starting to be able to execute and scrap a few runs out. We're finding ways to score runs, sometimes, when we really need them. |