Dave Moates
Dave Moates
David Allen Moates is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. He played all or part of three seasons in the major leagues, from 1974 until 1976, for the Texas Rangers...
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There's always been good competition in this tournament. This is the cream of the crop in the state.
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We've been swinging the bats, and we got decent pitching, two nice pluses to have.
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Bird droppings often contain fish eggs. This lake was stocked completely by nature.
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As I came across the front toward these windows, one of the officers was looking in there, and he signaled for me to come out. Then he signaled for me to get the rest of my people out.
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Dillon has played very solid defense for us, we've just got to get him on track at the plate. We've had very solid defense up the middle.
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Fundamentally, they beat us in every facet of the game. You can't play baseball like that and expect to win . . . not in this district.
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It's his arm action. Then, he gathers himself well on the mound and lets it go. (Olson) even commented that his arm action is better than it was a month ago.
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We've scored just two runs in the last 18 innings. We're not swinging the bats like we need to. We're not stringing the hits together.
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We were calling pitches to pitch around Ovens, but the pitchers weren't pitching it. It's that simple. We weren't calling for fastballs down the middle with base-runners on with the best hitter on their team standing there. They couldn't hit spots, and if you couldn't hit spots, he'll hit the ball.
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That's what we've been trying to get through their heads. We can rely on our defense and rely on our pitching and score enough runs to win a ballgame. We're not going to overpower anyone with the bats.
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That's high school baseball. It's not earth-shattering. It's early in the year, too. They have to learn to pitch and play in games like this to be successful in games like this in April.
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He was throwing where he was supposed to be throwing and making his pitches.
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(Griffin) came into the game hitting .430, he's over .500 now. Davis came in hitting .440, now he's over .500. Both kids had (at least) three hits tonight.
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Any time you've got a power pitcher who throws a breaking ball for a strike, it sets things up much better.