Jim Brownlee
Jim Brownlee
bragging face head high involved nice note rights road series staff thursday tough valley weekend win
Because my son, Ryan, is on the staff at Iowa, there's always some bragging rights involved in the series each year. It would be nice for us to win the series and have those bragging rights, but it will be more important that we play well, so we can head out Thursday on a high note to face Creighton for a tough weekend Valley road series.
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Kris is the type of player that can really make us go and his competition level has grown tremendously in the past week or so. He has been getting clutch hits and making things happen on the bases with steals. I believe that will start to rub off on some of the other players who are not playing as well as they should be.
bases bats best either good hits played produced ran runners scoring southern timely win
Other than the win at Southern Mississippi, I think this is the best that we have played all year. We got some timely hits and managed to get on base, either with good at bats or getting hit by pitches. Then we ran the bases well and produced with runners in scoring positions.
against ahead count hitters looked luke pitches self throwing
Luke looked like his old self today. He was consistently ahead in the count against most hitters and was throwing all of his pitches for strikes.
couple game good innings plays teams
If we made a couple of those plays where we had opportunities to get out of innings the game would have been different. Good teams make those plays and we didn't today.
bullpen deserved due game good heart late lost shut tonight
Ian pitched his heart out tonight and really deserved for something good to come out of this start. Unfortunately, our bullpen could not shut Evansville down and we lost another game late due to a big inning.
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In these mid-week contests, we try to get as many people work as possible and still give ourselves a chance to win. Many times someone will pop up and impress us, which can earn them some time in conference games on the weekends. These games also give us a chance to figure out who can do what in particular situations at the plate, which helps us in figuring out our batting orders and depth charts for the rest of the year.
baseball either forward moving
In baseball, you're either moving forward or you're going backward. We're going backward.
stay win
It's important for us to get a win and stay even in the conference.
believe coming easy enthusiasm grit happen hope late loss ready rest shows sunday team
Coming off a disappointing loss this late in the season, it could be easy for the team to give up. But I don't think that will happen with this group. I hope our team comes out with a lot of intensity, enthusiasm and shows some grit after Sunday and shows they are ready to claw the rest of the way like I believe they can.