Maybe we needed that kind of tail kicking to wake us up. |
Michael is obviously our future behind the plate. |
Part of the reason that we scheduled them ... was to excite people in our community about college baseball. I think people are excited about it, and I think we've got a chance to have a great crowd and gain a lot of community support. |
The greatest thing about it is you had an energetic crowd and we played well, so hopefully we can get a lot of those people back out. |
We gave up some runs early and I thought, here we go again. The only bright side of it was when we're in our park and the wind is blowing, I always feel like we've got a chance. |
We have to get a quality start out of Tabor. Our bullpen has worked hard and we need to get five or six innings out of him and only give up two or three runs. |
We still have to wait for a final decision from the NCAA. I thought it would come probably 10 days ago, but obviously they're not in a hurry because it doesn't mean as much to them. |
We've got to find a way to put the ball in play. We struck out 23 times in two days, and that is not tolerable. |
We've had opportunities to score and we've been in every game through the seventh inning. We haven't been able to get the timely hits. When you're not scoring runs, everything is magnified. |
Whether everybody who shows up is rooting for the Rebels or not, I don't know, but certainly it will be exciting. I would imagine they would (travel well) coming off a national championship ... and just because of some of the momentum that their athletic department has. |
With any luck at all, this will be the turning point in our season and we can continue to play well. |
You have got to win games, no doubt about it. There's no remedy like winning. We thought Friday's win (6-5 in 12 innings) would spearhead that. We thought we would come out and swing the bats the next couple of games, and we haven't done that. |