Jim Schmitz
Jim Schmitz
Jim Schmitz is an American college baseball coach, formerly the head coach at Wilmington, Cincinnati, and Eastern Illinois...
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I think the key after playing such a hard weekend with not too many positives is to get on a winning streak. We're bringing in probably one of the best Division II teams, but most of (Tuesday's) practice will be working on things we need: Swinging at strikes and throwing strikes. It's a simple game and we kind of let that get away from us.
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Once we get out there and put some games together where we have some consistent defense throughout the game, that'll breed our confidence. That's what we're looking to do right now.
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The neat thing for this game is we didn't get all excited that we were beating Illinois. We play the same way no matter if it's Illinois or Illinois State or anyone else.
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We have to do a little better about putting teams away. I have to create more action to take pressure off our guys.
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It would have been easy to give up but I think we're the best 3-9 team around. I'm really confident this team has the ability to turn it around. This is probably the best hitting team we've had in the history of the school.
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Five and four is a good spot to be in right now. Coming home with two wins gets us in the hunt. These next few series are going to be unbelievable.
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Blake got a good pitch away. It's the basic hitting approach. You can call it a flare but it got the job done.
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The thing I'm most surprised about is the run production. I knew he'd be a catalyst and get on base and steal bases, but the way he drives the ball has really impressed me because he's not a home run hitter.
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We're disappointed in Chris. Your No. 1 has to keep you in the ball game. But we'll start him again on Wednesday.
ready
I was very disappointed in the whole weekend. (Disappointed in) how we were ready to play.
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We feel good about having the entire package going offensively.
against unaware
We were unaware it was bugging him against Samford.
again broke last mold talk week
We don't even talk about it. We just do it. We broke out the mold last week and we did it again today.
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I thought maybe that would mess up his swing. The key is he's a singles hitter.