Bobby Pierce
Bobby Pierce
Bobby Pierceis the head baseball coach at Troy University. He started his coaching career at Chipola Junior College, where he coached from 1982 to 1989. He posted a 259–92 record there with five berths in the state tournament. He was later hired as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Alabama. As an assistant, he went 158–122. In 1996, he was the head baseball coach at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, where he went 276–108...
ben good great kept law streak talked
I thought it was very special. I talked to his wife, mother-in-law and see the baby. I thought it was great and Ben had a good day and kept his streak alive. All and all, it was a very good day for us.
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Joe didn't have very good stuff tonight, and that is not terribly unusual in a second start. After making a strong start last week, I thought he looked a little tired and you have to be able to battle through that.
advantage door good hitting teams took
When the door opened, they took advantage like good hitting teams do. The teams we play have been able to do that, and we haven't.
balls couple early instead momentum runs
We had a couple of balls where if they get down early instead of being caught, it's a different game. We've got to find a way to get some runs early and get momentum back on our side.
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We don't want to be content with winning the series, but we're certainly satisfied with what we've done. They showed a lot of courage coming back in a game they could have easily let get away.
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We had some good two-strike and two-out at-bats.
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Very few times do you get to get as many people quality at-bats in a game situation as we have gotten in the last two days. The negatives are you don't want your team to play a sloppy side of baseball and take things for granted, and we've done that as well.
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We started slow again tonight, and I don't like that very much. It seems that our intensity doesn't pick up until our backs are to the wall, but this team continues to respond when that happens.
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We took him on every trip because of what he meant to us. We knew he wasn't going to play, but he made us that much better.
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I don't know whether to be happy or sad. This was an ugly, ugly game. The positive is that we continued to hit the ball well, but we didn't play very good defense, and we didn't pitch very well early in the game.
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He's a guy that will find a way to get the job done. He's an established hitter, but he'll walk or get hit by a pitch. Any number of things that winning players do, that defines Ben Woods.
giving guy knows strike zone
He's a guy that knows the strike zone well. We'll be giving him more opportunities.
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He just wasn't quite sharp enough with his curve. His breaking ball wasn't quick enough at times. When your starter gets in trouble like that, you want him to fight through it, but I probably waited too long to pull him.
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I am sure the other coaches in the league had a hard time deciding where to place our players on the All-Conference team, just as I did placing theirs.