Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was time for a rally, we turned our jackets inside out and from there our bats woke up.

It was tough. We actually played a great game. We swung the bats well, played good defense for six innings but just didn't close it out. Matt threw well. We just didn't make plays behind him.

That's where we're struggling at right now swinging the bats and throwing strikes. We hadn't been playing normal Cathedral baseball. We've been struggling offensively and on the mound. We've been changing some people up and down in the lineup, and hopefully things will start coming together for Monday.

That shows the potential of what they can be all about. There are definitely a lot of major-league bats in there.

Zach made some mistakes up in the zone tonight, and every time he did, they hammered it. The guys on their team hadn't been swinging the bats real well, but tonight they did.

John Buck

They're swinging the bats pretty well right now,

Buck Showalter

They swung the bats well. We did too, but we needed a lot more (runs) than we had today to equal them.

Ronnie Belliard

They swung the bats pretty good, they scored a lot of run. We've got to come back tomorrow and do the same thing.

They swing the bats well and got some momentum going, but we were able to get it back. I think that's a tribute to Scott Williamson coming in there and getting the momentum back on our side.

A lot of it came from Mother Nature. The wind was blowing, it was obviously very strong today. It's a combination of our bats starting to come around and good old Mother Nature had the wind blowing out today.

Adam Kennedy

A lot of new bats have a handle that bends on impact. I don't really like that. They don't seem to have as much pop.

This is as well as we've swung the bats all year.

This group of kids have a strong mental game. With our bats as hot as they are right now, there wasn't any doubt that we could bounce back when they tied the game.

There was lots of good stuff. They're a much more seasoned team. But I'm happy with our play so far. We're just going to have to get over our jitters and we have to put our bats on the ball.

Eric Chavez

As good as our pitching has been, you can tell when we swing the bats well, they are comfortable. When we're not swinging the bats, they are not too comfortable on the mound. Hitting will really dictate how well we do the last month.

As a team, you feed off each other. We've really started to swing the bats well here in the last couple of weeks.

Kris Benson

They found a hole every single time they put the bats on the ball. When I look back on it, it's definitely disappointing. I've made worse pitches and I've felt worse in games. There's nothing I can do now.

Ian Botham

Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat.

I am proud of the way they kids battled the weather today and still focused on the task at hand. I was happy with the way we swung the bats and we got some great pitching out of all three of our pitchers. We have a short turnaround now before our next game, but we are off to a great start. We just have to keep it going now.

Mark E. Smith

Early in the season, our pitching really came through for us. The pitching has dropped off lately but the bats have really picked up the slack.

First of all, as you can see they (Troy) are a heck of a lot better than we are. There's no question about that. Coach (Bobby) Pierce and his staff do a great job ... I thought the first few days we swung the bats well enough to have a chance to win. We didn't pitch well enough, especially out of the bullpen.

Best team we've faced, no doubt. I told Sean that there was nobody in the conference better than them because they swung the bats real good.

O. Henry

Besides the second game yesterday, this about matched Georgia last weekend as far as how effective we were swinging the bats and getting runs in. Hopefully we're hitting on all cylinders here.

We did a great job competing at the plate. ... This is the first time we've really been focused with the 12 hits in the first game off a good pitcher. We just need to keep battling and putting good quality at bats up.

We did a fantastic job on defense today. We just have to get the bats going. Defensively, we can play with any team around.

We didn't pitch very well or play defense very well. We swung the bats a bit better but when you don't pitch well and don't take care of the baseball, you're not going to win many games.

I spoke to Kookaburra this morning and they said we could use the bats during the one-day series not the Test matches.

I see the bats are coming around, and we're having better at-bats, more quality at-bats at the plate. I'm not concerned about the offense. The offense will be there.

The wind blowing out helped a little. We hadn't been swinging our bats well at all coming in here, but we did a good job of battling today.

The whole weekend we didn't swing the bats very well.

Randy Johnson

They actually swung today. The sooner they get their swings down, the better for me as well. I'm not trying to break bats and strike people out, I'm just trying to throw my pitches and feel like I'm accomplishing something. The more I throw, the better my pitches will get.

What can I say? We just didn't give up. We kept swinging the bats well. It took off a lot of the pressure coming back from down three with two innings left. That was huge for us.

We've been swinging the bats well, and hopefully that continues. It's nice when they come out swinging. It makes it a lot easier for us.