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Best team we've faced, no doubt. I told Sean that there was nobody in the conference better than them because they swung the bats real good.

O. Henry

Besides the second game yesterday, this about matched Georgia last weekend as far as how effective we were swinging the bats and getting runs in. Hopefully we're hitting on all cylinders here.

Actually, the whole game we looked better hitting. We were swinging the bats a lot better. We had some good hits, they just made some good plays on it.

The more at bats I get the more comfortable I feel. I don't feel like I'm behind. It feels like I've been with the team all along. I just felt good today.

Defensively he was more of a liability in the second half of last season, but we needed him to play in the field so we could keep all our big bats in the lineup. He thought his defense was the reason he wasn't drafted. Pro scouts - they don't just go after bats.

The thing with Rollins is they've got tremendous pitching. We're going to have to continue to swing the bats and we're going to have to shut them down. Runs may be hard to come by this weekend.

It was time for a rally, we turned our jackets inside out and from there our bats woke up.

It was tough. We actually played a great game. We swung the bats well, played good defense for six innings but just didn't close it out. Matt threw well. We just didn't make plays behind him.

That's where we're struggling at right now swinging the bats and throwing strikes. We hadn't been playing normal Cathedral baseball. We've been struggling offensively and on the mound. We've been changing some people up and down in the lineup, and hopefully things will start coming together for Monday.

That shows the potential of what they can be all about. There are definitely a lot of major-league bats in there.

We had to battle in that first game. We were down 10-2 but got the bats going. Everyone stepped up.

Those three kids have swung consistent bats all spring and they came through with those doubles all in a row. That was some great hitting.

We weren't swinging the bats really well. Southern has a great pitching staff and probably the best hitting team they've had, and we held them to only eight hits all weekend.

The wind blowing out helped a little. We hadn't been swinging our bats well at all coming in here, but we did a good job of battling today.

The whole weekend we didn't swing the bats very well.

Randy Johnson

They actually swung today. The sooner they get their swings down, the better for me as well. I'm not trying to break bats and strike people out, I'm just trying to throw my pitches and feel like I'm accomplishing something. The more I throw, the better my pitches will get.

You hate to see a game like this. Even if you win you feel bad. But we got a chance to get our bats going and we got some valuable experience for our pitcher.

Frank Robinson

You have to give him credit for some of it. But some of the responsibility falls on our shoulders. We're not swinging the bats very well.

The pitchers, again, did a great job of holding them to only three hits. It was the errors that cost us this game. They used the same pitcher in the second game. After 11 innings, we still couldn't seem to get our bats going.

Raul Ibanez

We've put together big innings the last two nights. We swung the bats well this series.

What can I say? We just didn't give up. We kept swinging the bats well. It took off a lot of the pressure coming back from down three with two innings left. That was huge for us.

We've been swinging the bats well, and hopefully that continues. It's nice when they come out swinging. It makes it a lot easier for us.

Dan Davis

We've been swinging the bats very well compared to the last couple of years. If we continue to do that offensively and hit in good situations when we have guys in scoring position, we'll do OK.

Alex Rodriguez

We've been swinging the bats progressively better the last three days. We have to work on being more consistent.

John Gibbons

We've been swinging the bats pretty well. I really like how our offense is built.

Ned Yost

We've been swinging the bats OK, with the exception of (Wednesday night), ... I think every team has those games where it seems like you can't get anything done.

Jack Wilson

We've been swinging the bats great lately. We've been outhitting most of our opponents. Most of the time we haven't been getting the big hits. Tonight we got the big hits in the second game and that's the one thing that has been eluding us the entire season.

We just wanted to get back on the winning track. We came out swinging the bats really well today and that was good to see.

I spoke to Kookaburra this morning and they said we could use the bats during the one-day series not the Test matches.

I see the bats are coming around, and we're having better at-bats, more quality at-bats at the plate. I'm not concerned about the offense. The offense will be there.

We saw the kids playing in mud and they had bats and were making mud pies out of them.

I mean, it's been just a little bit of everything. We've gotten some stretches where we've had some good offensive production. When the bats cooled down, our pitchers have stepped up.

I knew we had the bats to come back. Everybody was starting to get a little nervous. The kids played well.