Shawn really jump-started us in the third inning. That changed the whole atmosphere in our dugout. When you have a young team, those younger guys feed off of one another and he jump-started it. Everyone got more aggressive and we were a whole different team. |
Sometimes you just have to tip your hat to the guy who was pitching against us. But I also wasn't happy with our early-game approach at the plate. I thought we were passive and I thought we were lethargic and we made it easy on him. |
Spandex, ... We're gonna look like volleyball players. |
Stanford asked us if we could move our game so they could move their series, and we accommodated them. |
Steve will get the start (today) and then we'll just see from there. |
Steven was a wonderful student-athlete with a bright future. |
Steven was a wonderful student-athlete with a bright future. He will be deeply missed by everyone in the Wolf Pack baseball family. Our prayers and thoughts are with his family. |
Stew was really the driving force behind it. He took the initiative and made contact with all the guys and stayed on it until he got the commitments. He has done a wonderful job getting this thing together. |
Terry really did take over the game there. He had been biding his time this season as we mixed and matched guys in the lineup. We gave him a chance today and he responded. |
That was huge because he does such a good job defensively to our outfield and he adds some speed to our offense, which we don't have a whole lot of. It was just the paperwork with the transfer. |
That was the key to the game. We were cruising right along but they got two quick runs without really having to work at it and they were getting some momentum. But as soon as we hit those back-to-back home runs, it took the momentum right away. |
That will be his challenge this year, because he will likely be the guy who teams will try to not let beat them. He has to develop some plate discipline so he can be an asset to our team. Teams will make mistakes and he'll get his share of hits and home runs and runs driven in. But he needs to patient and help others to get better. |
That's been happening on the other side of the fence. It's just nice to see us get that one opportunity to take advantage today. |
The game was won on defense today. |
The whole thing was pretty special to me. As a coach, you look at those guys and that is why you do what you do. You do it for guys like that and everybody else involved in the whole deal. You get into coaching for the players in the first place. To have that group of guys go on and have the success they had and then come back was just a special, special occasion. |