To win our first (league) game is a tremendous boost of confidence.

300

We have no bats and no arms that will overpower teams, so we need to play smart baseball and not make any mistakes on defense.

240

For him to come in under those conditions and throw strikes was a tremendous job.

195

If you can put the bat on the ball time after time and put pressure on teams, good things are going to happen. And right now we're just swinging the pipes extremely well.

187

We haven't been scoring in the first inning, and the fact that we got those runs in the first inning gave us some confidence and carried us into the middle innings.

180

That's about three games in a row now that we've been scoring with two outs.

173

I guess if I had to attribute it (the turnaround), it was just the fact that the kids have done what we've asked them as a coaching staff and some of those things have turned out to their benefit, which has helped their confidence. The kids have responded very well and they've worked very hard.

168

You win one game or two and people say it's a fluke. You win three or four in a row and then people start saying that maybe you're for real.

149

At this level, if you can throw strikes consistently you're going to get people out. And we're playing such good defense right now that our pitchers don't think they have to get people out themselves, and that's why were getting such good pitching.

85