They're starting to learn how to come out and play the same way every day. Coming off a big weekend, Tuesday games become a game of focus, and you have to continue to execute every night. |
We played the short game some with the wind blowing in. |
We were able to get some big outs. Brandt got a big out for us, and Farquhar inherited a tough situation because you never know when your big inning will be. |
We're finally getting to the point that we want to play at. We're pitching, playing solid defense and getting some timely hits. |
We're going to play a lot of very good baseball teams in league play. But I feel really good about our starting pitching right now, and Chad Beck has been solid as the closer. We're not where we need to be hitting the ball right now, but that will come. I think we'll be a good hitting team before it's over. |
We're happy with where we are, especially where we're coming from. The only negative is we're throwing only about five deep, and someone else among the pitchers has to step up. |
We're not playing pitter-patter at the plate any more. We talked to the team about how we were dead last in the conference in hitting, and tonight we came out swinging the bats. |
We've got to do better than that one inning. We've got to get an out when they give us one with the bunt. But we righted the ship, (Danny) Farquhar came in and got a couple of big outs and Chad (Beck) did what he's supposed to do in the ninth. |
We've gotten kind of stingy and spoiled by them. But our guys love to play behind them. The guys behind them know they're going to battle hitters and give them a chance to win. |
What he's doing has spread out all over the lineup. Early in the year we had it packed in front and had issues all over the place. |
What we haven't been doing is scoring early. We've gotten better at that. It helps when we can put up runs every other inning, but any team plays better when they trust the pitchers. |