Kirk Saarloos
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"Kirk Craig Saarloos" is a former right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher. He was on the 2011 Cal State Fullerton coaching staff as an undergraduate assistant coach. Saarloos returns to the school that propelled him to a seven-year major league career with Houston (2002–03), Oakland (2004–06, 08) and Cincinnati (2007). He will continue to work towards his bachelor's degree in communications at Cal State Fullerton. He became the Pitching Coach of Texas Christian University in the summer of 2012. He led the team to the lowest ERA in school history since 1968.

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I knew it was a foul ball. They made the right call.

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You can't make too big of a deal out of it. But any time you play the Angels this late in the season and it means something, it's fun.

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I didn't do my job and that's disappointing, especially this late in the season, ... I kept the ball down for the most part, but when I was up, they hit the ball pretty good.

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I knew the ball bounced, I knew they'd reverse it.

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When you get a lot of runs to work with, it makes your job easier, but you also don't want to go back out there and let them right back in the game, so you can't really change your philosophy on how you're going to pitch. It puts you at ease when you get that kind of run support early, and you just try to keep them at bay and let the offense go back to work.

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I didn't do my job tonight, keeping us in the ball game. It's disappointing this late in the year having an outing like this. My cutter wasn't sharp. I didn't establish my fastball.

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It's going to be fun. We're going to give it our all, give it our best shot.

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That's when we play good. We don't make errors, we put the ball in play, and we throw strikes. That's our recipe for winning.

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