Dave Esquer
Dave Esquer
David Charles Esqueris the head coach of the California Golden Bears baseball team...
gave runs score together
While we gave up more runs than we've been used to, we've still got to score runs too. We just haven't been able to put it all together at any one time.
bad four hurt league losses recover three trying weekend won
We've won three out of our four (conference) series, but unfortunately one bad weekend in league can hurt you. Two one-run losses and one big-series loss and we're still trying to recover from that.
ahead best days define improve means ourselves playing
It's going to give us an idea of where we're at and what we need to improve on. It will by no means define our season, because we feel that our best days are yet ahead of us and we've got to get ourselves playing to that level.
gauge
It's going to be a gauge for us, and it's going to be a big gauge.
fall guys rhythm turns
It's just for a different look. It's just to see the rhythm of how things fall when the lineup turns over and to see how guys fall just to give me an idea of how things flow.
highest level plays
It's about us-we've got to play well (for) ourselves. If we play at our highest level and (Stanford) plays well, we'll take our chances.
bats believe starting taken time
We're starting to believe a little bit. We're starting to believe in our bats a little bit, and it's taken a long time to get there. That's big for us.
bunch coming experience game guys pitch pitching staff
We're going to pitch a lot of guys and kind of have a staff day-a bunch of guys pitching an inning or two apiece. We're going to get some guys some game experience that they're going to need in these coming weekends.
good highs matter repeating season short together
We've all had some good outings and some highs in the short season so far. Now it's just a matter of repeating those and stringing together some more of those good wins.
good hit hopefully met waiting warm
We still haven't met up with any warm weather, so we're still waiting to thaw out a little bit. That's not an excuse, but hopefully we hit some good weather.
happens short
Time's getting short. But if it happens for a short while, there's going to be some satisfaction in there.
closer forced hand hot roll starts true until
We don't have a true closer right now, so we're going to play the hot hand. We're kind of forced to play the hot hand and let it roll until it starts to falter, and unfortunately it did.
break either four ground hit played running work
A break like this can work either way. You can hit the ground running or you can play like you haven't played in four weeks.
consistency ourselves played plenty
They played well. We had plenty of opportunities, and we just couldn't do it. We give ourselves opportunities to win, but we haven't had enough consistency to really get us on a roll.