Mervyl Melendez
Mervyl Melendez
Mervyl Melendez is a Puerto Rican college baseball coach who is the current head coach of the FIU Panthers baseball team. He has held the position since June 28th 2016...
beat both couple division errors game good key ourselves pitchers rival starting
When you've got a Division I rival this close, you want to beat them, and unfortunately we haven't been able to do that much. But I wasn't too displeased with this game because it was a good game. Both starting pitchers did very well, and we killed ourselves with a couple of key errors. We don't make those errors and it's a 0-0 game.
cause chance coaches future harder looks players promised team win worked
I promised the other coaches we'd go out and get players who were going to give us a chance to win and not cause problems. We have worked harder than ever as coaches to get this team together, and I think the future looks pretty bright.
cancers domino followed guys hard hard-work loyalty others program team
It was a domino effect. I'd say the program that we had established here through hard work, pride, trust, loyalty -- those things just went south. We had some guys on the team that were cancers and some others followed them. We had guys who didn't want to be here.
bottom decides good happen holds line pitching season stay
It could be a long season if we have something unfortunate happen to one of those guys. Or if one of them decides to do something stupid. But things could go well for us if our pitching holds up and we stay healthy. The bottom line is we have a good pitching staff.
bounce faced good needed pitching rest
We faced some good pitching in this game, and that's what we needed going into the rest of the season. We'll bounce back. We'll be alright.