Dave Esquer
Dave Esquer
David Charles Esqueris the head coach of the California Golden Bears baseball team...
good guys hard job keeping pressure runs score
We've got to get some of these big guys going to take some of the pressure off of our pitching. We've done a good job keeping the score down, but unfortunately runs have been hard to come by.
against competition environment good hostile level rising
We're going to be in a hostile environment against a very good team. It's going to take us rising to the level of our competition (to win).
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.
ballpark develop except goal good hard pitching time
Our goal is to just develop some consistency, so we know when we come out to the ballpark how we're going to play. We haven't done that except for pitching and good defense. We've had a hard time getting going offensively.
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.
cost couple defense effort errors flu good last lucky mistakes night seven stomach three
Our defense has made seven errors in the last three games. I don't think we've made seven errors all year. (Ross) had a stomach flu the night before, so we were lucky that he could even pitch. It was a good effort on his part and we made a couple mistakes that cost him.
anywhere bats cold dodging everywhere good hopefully played rain rather starts turn warm weather
I'd rather be anywhere if the weather would turn better. We haven't played in good weather yet-we've been dodging rain and cold everywhere we've been. Hopefully our bats will warm up once the weather starts to get warm here, but they haven't yet.
best conference gain momentum playing prior rather
We're not playing our best yet, so that's a little concerning. We'll have to gain some of that momentum in the conference rather than prior to.
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.
best respect
We've got a lot of respect for them and we know that we'll have to play our best to win.
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.
team
If we're going to be the team we need to be, we need them both.
allen behind game guys hit percent proper rely sixty stuck team waiting
Sixty percent of the time, if he makes an out then we're stuck waiting for an extra-base hit from the guys behind him. It's just the proper play. It's kind of by the book, but this is a team game and we have to rely on more than just Allen Craig.
average error given margin middle pitching position runners scoring staff
Our middle of the lineup and our average with runners in scoring position just haven't been that good. We haven't given our pitching staff any margin for error yet, and that's been a little frustrating.