Ray Tanner
Ray Tanner
Ray Tanneris the athletic director at the University of South Carolina, a position he took on July 13, 2012 after spending 16 successful seasons as head coach of the university's baseball program. His record since arriving at Carolina in 1997 is 738-316. He led USC to three consecutive College World Series appearances in 2002, 2003 and 2004, three consecutive College World Series appearances in 2010, 2011 and 2012, two College World Series Championships in 2010 and 2011, and coached the...
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We just had everything going for us. We were catching some breaks. We were hitting the ball hard and doing a good job, but it seemed like everything was going our way. It was certainly a great day and a great weekend for us.
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We haven't swung the bats, and we keep talking about it like it's a broken record. I think we'll get better as we go. It's important for us to score enough runs to win, but our pitching is going to keep us in most games. Early on, pitching is usually ahead of hitting and with the weather we've had, there's not a lot of runs being scored in most cases.
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We always knew he could hit. He's hitting the ball well, and those he's not hitting well are finding a hole. That's what happens with good hitters; they get their share and a few more, too.
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They did a nice job hitting in clutch situations and we weren't able to get some across when we had to.
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We're hitting a few bumps in the road. But we're working our way out.
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Alabama is really good. They have quality pitching, and have couple of guys in the bullpen, and their hitting has really, really picked up since the beginning of the year. Coach Wells and his guys have just gotten better and better since Day 1. They may have the best starters in the league.
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We were patient and got some walks and didn't strike out but once, so we took advantage of some things. Today we got some extra outs and were able to score guys that got on base other ways than with hits. We hit balls hard, but again we didn't have a lot to show for it.
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We chartered a couple times in my career, but we go commercial most of the time when we fly, and we try to bus as much as we can. It's hard to move a baseball team commercially.
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It was another great game in a great rivalry. It's always a great game when we get together.
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(Cruse) was only going to go two or three innings at best, and obviously it wasn't a good outing for him, so we went ahead and sat him down.
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Cruse gave us the performance of his career. I'd like to get a few more hits, but we played about as good as we can and pitched about as good as we can pitch against a team of that caliber.
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Drew understands our situation. Most other guys would have been in my office by now. He has an argument for being in there every single day.
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Everything went well. The doctor told him that he should be ready to go by the time next season begins.
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Quinnipiac isn't in awe of South Carolina, and they are coming down here to win. The fact that we were able to answer whenever they got some runs was big.