107 ordspråk av Brian O'Connor
Brian O'Connor
Those guys in the bullpen have been worked hard. I was trying to sneak through one more inning with Jacob.
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To have a big offensive day, you have to have multiple guys in your lineup get multiple hits. When you do that, you are going to have a chance to have a high-scoring game.
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VCU has a very good baseball program. I think their coach does an outstanding job. It was a great win. This shows what can happen when you go out and get a strong starting pitching performance.
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We didn't necessarily have a strategy. We all had our strengths and weaknesses, but we also had enough faith in one another to let whoever had a gut feeling about the answer go ahead and buzz in.
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We don't put any stock into preseason rankings. We come out to play every day and to compete.
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We had a good practice [Monday] and our intensity was good. I talked to the players before the game about coming out today in an attacking mode and [to] come right after them and we did.
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We have a senior, veteran captain on the mound, and we will expect that he comes out and gives us a chance to win early in the ball game.
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We just need to continue to progress. The season is still young, we're only 20 percent through the season, but we just need to keep working on our skills so that we are improving up to the start of the ACC season against Georgia Tech.
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We practiced our bunt defense [on Tuesday] for a half-hour and it was absolutely horrible. It's not an easy thing to do. It looks simple, but fortunately for us it caused us to have a big inning.
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We really swung the bats well this weekend. We battled with two strikes and got a lot of two-out hits. I feel very confident about our offense heading down the stretch run.
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We struck out looking three times. That's unacceptable. Last Sunday, we had an unbelievable day. We had 16 hits and it's not too often that you are going to have 16 hits. A seven-to-10-hit day is more typical.
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We take pride in being able to execute that small game. We did not do that [yesterday] at times. Sometimes you don't get the job done, but the guys didn't give up, that is what was important.
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We took control of the game early and just kept pressing on.
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We're in a great position. We have played four teams in our league so far that I think are going to be NCAA Tournament teams. Now we need to take care of the middle of our schedule here.
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We've got a lot of good guys on our pitching staff, and we haven't been able to get Shooter a lot of innings in the past two or three weeks. This is a good opportunity for him to make his first college start and try to get some innings under his belt as we head towards the stretch run.
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