It was good to see our team start to hit the ball up and down the lineup. We knew coming into this series that we would have to score some runs, and this was a good start to the weekend. |
It's a game of inches. The inches just haven't gone our way. I don't think we've played exceptionally well, but we've done enough at times. |
It's something that will be good for Ozark and good for Troy. Hopefully we can reach out to the fan base there. |
Joe didn't have very good stuff tonight, and that is not terribly unusual in a second start. After making a strong start last week, I thought he looked a little tired and you have to be able to battle through that. |
Mike was not sharp. He missed some spots on critical counts. He can pitch better, and he will. |
Our offense has really come around. We're swinging the bats well and getting good at-bats. When we get runs on, we're driving them in. |
That takes someone from being a young man to being a man. The guys who I've had that have had a kid or been married or both have handled it well, and Ben seems to be doing the same thing. |
That's a game he'll remember. He was the big difference tonight. |
The walks and hit batsmen continued to keep him in trouble. He was not as sharp as he has been in his first two games, but he didn't throw that bad. You can't put it all on him. |
Those are the guys that are throwing well. That's about all we've used consistently so far. |
Very few times do you get to get as many people quality at-bats in a game situation as we have gotten in the last two days. The negatives are you don't want your team to play a sloppy side of baseball and take things for granted, and we've done that as well. |
We don't want to be content with winning the series, but we're certainly satisfied with what we've done. They showed a lot of courage coming back in a game they could have easily let get away. |
We got ourselves into some trouble early in the game, but once again these kids showed that they never give up. We have had several of these kinds of games over the last couple of weeks, and this team believes it is going to win every time. |
We had a couple of balls where if they get down early instead of being caught, it's a different game. We've got to find a way to get some runs early and get momentum back on our side. |
We had some good two-strike and two-out at-bats. |