Mike Shimek
Mike Shimek
good offensive pitching potential
We have the potential to play some good defense. Our pitching is getting better each game, but I would like to see some more offensive production.
experience game luckily pitching save
You take the experience from one game and take it to the next. You take what you can get. Luckily we got to save our pitching in this game.
arms available mostly nice pitching split sure win
It's nice to win with a different look. We mostly wanted to split the pitching tonight. We wanted to make sure that we have our arms available for the tournament.
games gets happen pitching
Games like this happen when pitching gets depleted.
ball certainly hit score
We certainly hit the ball well enough to score today.
both came games threw
Ross Knowland came in both games for us and threw some strikes.
leave listened players stadium today
I'd like to think the players listened to me when I told them we weren't out of it. I told them we weren't going to leave this stadium today without a win.
cleanest struggle
It wasn't the cleanest game. But we managed to struggle through it and come out all right.
breaking control daniel good pitches
It was good to see Daniel get his breaking pitches under control again.
coming fast furious learn ourselves three tough weeks
It's about to get fast and furious for us. We've got some tough tournaments coming up and we're going to learn a lot about ourselves in the first three weeks of this season.
district extended pitchers rolls
We're going to give our pitchers some extended innings. That is going to be a need when district rolls around.
chips close plan playing relaxed stay
When you're playing for a championship, it's always going to be a close game. The plan for us was to stay relaxed and if the chips are down, know we can come back. That's what we did.
advantage ball good hitting lost mistakes played takes team
We played well in spots. But a good hitting team takes advantage of mistakes by pitchers. We lost to a good-hitting ball team today.
ask ball forward looking middle playing spending time
You're playing ball in the middle of February, so you can't ask for much out of the weather. I'm just looking forward to spending some time at the ballpark.