Mike Bianco
Mike Bianco
Mike Biancois an American college baseball coach, currently the head coach of the Ole Miss Rebels baseball team. He has held the position since the start of the 2001 season...
baseball both false good seen sides
Baseball is so much about confidence. How you feel about your swing, your pitching. I don't think it's a false confidence. We know we have to play well to win. We didn't play well in March. We've seen both sides of it, which I think is a good thing.
answering difficult extending kept lead score time
We kept answering (at the plate). We kept controlling the game. Every time they would score we would score. We kept extending the lead and made it more and more difficult for them.
direction hopefully stop time turn
At some point, we've got to stop it and turn it around and go in the other direction. Hopefully that time is coming.
feet wet work
We wanted to get him back out there and get his feet wet again. Sometimes it doesn't work out the way you want.
ahead bats clutch five good hitters pitcher six stop swinging
We've been swinging the bats well for five or six games. But a good pitcher sometimes can stop that. Crawford was able to get ahead of the hitters and make the clutch pitch.
anybody best deserves friday game gives moved opportunity pitch reason role win
The reason he got moved to the Friday role is that he gives us the best opportunity to win the game of anybody we've got. He deserves to pitch on Friday.
capitalize couple hard momentum pitcher played roll ucla
We competed hard today, but UCLA just played better than we did. We got their pitcher on the ropes early, but we didn't capitalize and let him get back on a roll after the first couple of innings. We never were able to take that momentum back.
class compete continue dan last losses nation needs obviously position shows work
Obviously we addressed some needs after the losses we had from last year's team. To have the eighth-ranked class in the nation shows the work that Dan McDonnell has done to keep us in a position to continue to compete nationally.
farther game games good kept news shot
I think if we could have kept the game close, we'd have had a shot because we were having good at-bats. We thought we'd be a little farther along. The good news is there are a lot of games ahead.
allow games great impressive straight
It is not often you play two straight games and allow no runs. Lance pitched great today. He was very impressive considering it was his first collegiate start. He pitched with a lot of confidence.
raised sugar
Right now, sugar is not so sweet. Everybody's raised their prices.
brian counted easy game good guys happens last press pushed talked
I think, that happens a lot in our game. Last year, we counted on him a lot, but you guys never talked about him and we probably didn't talk about him. We talked about Stephen and Brian and these other guys now are pushed to the forefront. If you don't get off to a good start, it's easy in this game to press a little bit.
impressive
Lance pitched great. He was very impressive considering it was his first collegiate start. He pitched with a lot of confidence.
believe short success three trust
For the short term, yes, you're concerned, because he hasn't had success three times in a row. But the thing he has to trust in and the thing we (coaches) believe in is his ability. He will be a winner, and he will keep getting opportunities.