As he gets more experience, he's going to get better and better. I think he's still getting used to the speed of the game a little bit. |
Braden got ahead in the count and that's a situation where he can really be aggressive and look for a fastball. |
Calvin's a well-rounded player. We can put him at the top of our order and he brings speed to the team. |
Certainly, if you ask me, I'd rather be 8-4 than 4-8, but we've played a great schedule. We've played some real good clubs both historically and currently; teams that have played in Omaha and that consistently play in the postseason. |
I certainly don't want to take any credit away from him. He must have been doing something. But I just didn't feel like we competed at all. |
I think he's comfortable with his role for this team right now. But he is part of the future of this program, and it's nice to see that he was able to perform when given an opportunity today. |
I think it's bothering him a little bit at the plate. Mike's playing through it. To his credit, he goes out there and guts it out every day. He puts a lot of pressure on himself to succeed, but he's our guy and we're going to roll with him. |
I think we've got a couple guys in the middle of that lineup who could show some power in Bonnell and Miller. |
It is a tough schedule. But if we can maintain a high level of attention to detail, I think we're going to win a lot of games and be very successful. |
It's tough for guys who are as competitive as McCulloch is to stay focused when they are up 10-0. It's tough for him to pitch in that situation, but we took advantage of the opportunities they gave us. |
It's tough, after we scratched back. We have been giving up momentum runs. You score, you have to answer with a zero, and we did not do that. |
Jim is a good friend of mine, but we want to beat their tail off just like anybody else we play. |
Keith has been coming through for us consistently, but we need somebody else to step up. I think our best baseball is ahead of us, but we can't do it with one guy. We need to have a second guy come around and help carry us. |
Keith's a contact guy and one thing he won't do is strike out. I didn't want us to go down swinging in that situation. I wanted contact, but I didn't know he was going to hit a grand slam. |
Matt has a tendency not to loosen up at times because of the surgery. I thought he was loose when he went out there today. He got to a point that things began to tighten a bit. He felt like he couldn't let it go. |