“He's played a lot of baseball in the last few years, and it's a long season for those kids the first time. It's only natural that they lost a little bit at the very end.”
“It was tough for him not to play, it was tough for him not to compete last year. Now, it's time for him to put all that hard work to use and I think he's ready to do that.”
“I told them to put the elements out of their mind. Anybody who mentioned it or complained, I said I would kick them off the bench. It wasn't that bad to me. You just have to keep moving and (today) will be a challenge because we'll be playing two nine inning games.”
“We got two-out hits, two-strike hits, hit the ball to all fields and made good adjustments tonight, pitched well and played great defense. That might have been our best game of the year.”
“There's always anticipation. I've been watching the Weather Channel, trying to figure out in my mind what will happen (today) and when early hitting will be.”
