He was set up. A number of young girls from the village where he lives were kidnapped and were detained for 15 days and were told they would only be released if they made allegations against him. |
I couldn't be any more of proud of my team than I am right now. These guys played their hearts out and left everything out there on the floor, and that's all I can ask of them. We just got beat by a better team (Saturday night). |
I told my guys before the game that if this game was ugly it would be in our favor. I am just speechless. I have a bunch of guys in that locker room in there who just refuse to lose. What a great feeling this is. |
In the second game, we had a better approach to our at bats. In the first game, we had terrible at bats and that made a big difference in the games. |
It's a short term fix but it's always a very dangerous precedent when the police start paying for evidence. |
It's just getting innings in, and getting ready for 40 games in a month and a half. |
Last year was the first time in about nine years we haven't made the playoffs. That's certainly a motivating factor. |
Nick has one of the better arms we've had here. We're not going to have another Brawn, hitting-wise, but defensively we should be OK. |
Our focus is on Grand Valley, nothing else. |
Ryan has been doing the same thing all season. He gets 15-16 ground ball outs per game which helps our defense. |
There's a difference between losing a game and getting beat. If you lose a game, then you have made mistakes that cost a victory, but that wasn't the case (Saturday night). We just got beat by a better team. |
We aren't worried about anything except focusing on Grand Valley. We need to play our style against them and play good defensively and rebound well. |
We looked back at what we felt we needed to do better in Arizona (on the spring trip) and worked on that yesterday. We hit it back up the middle, and I had guys going to the opposite field who hadn't done that in three years. |
We've been using (Lucier) in relief. He has the ability to throw a number of pitches for strikes. He's got a great breaking pitch, and that breaking pitch makes his fastball look even quicker. |