Jeff Tageant
Jeff Tageant
amount kid potential super
He's a kid with a super amount of potential.
balance great hard hit kept maybe
He did a great job. He kept them off balance all night. They had maybe one hard hit all night. They were just overmatched.
good usual
He just didn't have his good stuff. He didn't have his usual velocity.
guy lee left
(Hammond's) guy left it up and Lee just got around.
ended few runners second third
He had a few nerves. He ended up with runners on second and third with no outs and got out of it in the sixth.
best doubt goals leave since talked win year
We're pretty focused. We've talked about our goals since the year began. We put it on our t-shirts, that we don't want to leave any doubt who's the best this year. Our goal is to win it all.
ball batter breaking seven worked
His breaking ball worked really well. Seven of his 12 strikeouts, the batter went down looking, didn't swing. A lot of those were on his breaking ball.
beat best
But if we want to be the best we have to beat the best.
battling good lost pitches sore thrown
Shawn really did a good job. He's been battling a sore arm, and he'd thrown around 90 pitches and we could see he lost some zip on his fastball.
bat early faced few settled starter swinging three walked
(Shawn had a few jitters early - walked the first two he faced - but he settled down. He's our no. three starter and he's swinging the bat well too.
bad kids knew played stepped
The kids knew we played bad the day before and they stepped up.
confident fastball knows poised throws
(Charlie) is a little more poised and confident this year. Not that he's cocky, but he knows that if he throws his fastball for strikes, he'll be successful.
hitter pitches somebody threw
He probably threw more pitches than we would have liked. We would have put somebody else in, but he had a no hitter going, so we let him have it.
ended struggled
He struggled a little. But that ended quickly.