(Former Rainbow) Josh Green came over for practice and said today's going to be the last good day because there's going to be rain tomorrow that's going to turn to snow by Sunday. |
A (Hornets coach) John Smith team will compete. If you are not prepared and don't go out and play your best game, you will get beat. |
Adam was big for us. |
All of the games were nip and tuck. For us to lose the first one in extra innings, to be able to come back and win the next two was big. Hopefully, it gives us some momentum to go on the road with. |
At times, he showed his best fastball command. His changeup was his pitch today. |
Basically, Matt is going to catch on that I'm going out and saying the same thing. He is very talented, but a freshman and sometimes he just needs to be shook up. |
But he battled for us. He goes seven innings, one run, 98 pitches. We'll take that every time. |
Darrell couldn't throw strikes during the fall of his freshman year. We work so much with our pitchers in the fall on fastball command and his fastball is his No. 3 pitch. |
Darrell has the pitches that give us a better chance to get strikeouts with a runner in scoring position. He relishes the role and everything worked out OK. |
Dean has been an inspirational leader of our team for two years. He isn't done yet. He is still capable of helping us. |
Dean Turner getting his first win as a Rainbow was the highlight of the evening. |
Eli combines range and arm strength. You don't realize the arm strength he has. He has a quick release on top of that and it helps. |
Eli got the big two-out hit to tie the game and for a few innings he is the hero in the dugout. But the tough part of baseball is you are only remembered for what you did in your last at-bat or even your next at-bat. |
Este just takes a while to get going. We've seen that for two years now. He is a streak guy, but his streaks are long. He is really swinging the bat well now. |
Every inning we got the first two guys on, we scored. That's good stuff. We didn't go into cruise control. Even when we didn't score, we had some good swings. |