Jim Schmitz
Jim Schmitz
Jim Schmitz is an American college baseball coach, formerly the head coach at Wilmington, Cincinnati, and Eastern Illinois...
bugs focus gives hits instead lack settling
Instead of settling down, he gives up two hits and the lead. It's a lack of focus that really bugs me.
chris far left locate middle saw
Chris didn't locate it in far enough. He left it over the middle and you saw the results.
deal great job major second staying
I probably should have made more of a major deal about Saturday's second game. We've been doing a great job of staying in games.
correct itself
It's not something that will correct itself in a day.
anyone beating excited game illinois matter neat state
The neat thing for this game is we didn't get all excited that we were beating Illinois. We play the same way no matter if it's Illinois or Illinois State or anyone else.
base early hard neat swinging
The neat part is that we're swinging early in the count. When you get two strikes, it's hard to get base hits.
bring seems time walk
It seems that every time we bring in a pitcher, they walk the first batter.
against coach everybody good knows last southern week
As a coach we always say no, but everybody knows it is. Everyone will come out the students, the fans. Even last week against Southern we had a good crowd.
best bringing division game hard key playing positives practice simple strikes swinging throwing weekend winning
I think the key after playing such a hard weekend with not too many positives is to get on a winning streak. We're bringing in probably one of the best Division II teams, but most of (Tuesday's) practice will be working on things we need: Swinging at strikes and throwing strikes. It's a simple game and we kind of let that get away from us.
failure major
It was a major failure on everybody's part.
above excited five innings mike six
I'm excited how Mike pitched above 80 pitches. We're excited to see him give us five or six innings on Saturday.
bad
We were just very bad in the first game-and-a-half. I don't know what was going on.
against unaware
We were unaware it was bugging him against Samford.
again ball start
We're disappointed in Chris. Your No. 1 has to keep you in the ball game. But we'll start him again on Wednesday.