Ron Polk
Ron Polk
Ronald GeorgePolkwas a long-time head baseball coach at Mississippi State and is considered, by some, to be the "Father of Southeastern Conference Baseball." Polk compiled one of the most successful winning records, as a coach, in both MSU and Southeastern Conference history. In 31 seasons as an SEC coach he compiled a 1218-638-2record. His career record stands at 1373-702-2. He currently ranks 9th on the all-time wins list nationally for 10+ year Division I coaches. His teams won five SEC...
arizona ball caliber credit job needed nice pitchers putting series team win
To win a three-game series from a team of Arizona's caliber is a credit to our players. Arizona has some outstanding pitchers and we did a nice job of putting the ball in play when we needed to.
thinking tough winning
That's the tough thing about winning 18 in a row. They're down there, thinking it's the end of the world. They wanted to see how long this thing could keep going.
ball home realize run second win
Little did you realize in the second inning that one home run is going to win a ball game.
bat chance close components pitching swing three win
Three components of the game, I think, we've done very well for the first 11 games. Pitching has been outstanding ... That's going to give you a chance to win games. Hitting, I still think we can swing the bat better than we have. (That) makes for a lot of close games.
good hit hunter joseph win
They're a good team. They wanted to win as much as we wanted to win. Joseph Hunter got the big hit for us.
straight win
A lot of things need to go right to win 14 straight times. But I think a lot of it isn't because we've been lucky. A lot of it has been because we've been pretty good.
ourselves week
This week will be a big test. We'll know a lot more about ourselves after this week.
home run three
We give them three after our home run to go up. That was big.
bad games good home start won
The good part is that we've won 11 games to start the season. The bad part is, they were all home games.
call few good pitching played weeks
We've played good teams, but give me a call in a few weeks and I'll let you know how our pitching is.
kids lights playing surface
But Smith-Wills has done everything we asked, put a new playing surface in, put new lights in, but it's an old facility. That's fine. It's not bad. It's old. You know how kids are, they want better facilities.
five hits innings until
We had the 13 hits in five innings because we didn't have a hit until the 5th inning.
umpires
Umpires are umpires, but he (Smith) was just incompetent.
injuries maybe trying
Maybe with all the injuries we've had on offense, (the pitchers) have been pressing and trying to do more.