Tim Funkhouser
Tim Funkhouser
huge
He's done that before. That was a huge play.
bearing coming couple mainly plan threw
He's been mainly our closer, and with the way he throws, he's just better off going a couple of innings, so that was the plan coming in. It had no bearing on his performance. In fact, I thought he threw pretty well.
create far gets good havoc overall plate rhythm seeing speed
He had a good day at the plate as far as his overall rhythm and seeing the ball. He's got good speed and can do a lot of different things when he gets on to create havoc for the defense.
bat came fire games good guys maturing meet strikes threw
He came out right off the bat and threw strikes and competed well. I think this is a maturing process. The more games like this we get into and see how guys do under fire ... it was really good to see our guys meet the challenge.
confident definitely offense plus
We're pretty confident up and down the order. It's definitely a plus when you can get offense from anybody.
bat batter coming given good hard kids rewarded swinging work
He's been coming on. When he's been given an opportunity, he's been swinging the bat batter lately. It's good to see kids get rewarded like that who work hard each day.
baseman bat coming defensive guy needed second swinging
He's been coming on. He's been our defensive second baseman and we just needed to go with a guy consistently there. When he's getting the opportunity, he's been swinging the bat better lately..
bad choice choices game reads
We made some bad choices and didn't get some reads today. We've got to get better at that. We've got to let the game come to us and make better reads of plays.
fitting role
He was impressive. He's really fitting into that role well.
ball crush
He didn't crush the ball but he did enough to put it in play.
ball crush early run strikes struck
He didn't crush it, but it got us a run there. He put the ball in play with two strikes and that was very important. We've struck out a lot early on and for him to come through like that was good.
ball found hole
He just put the ball in play. He didn't try to do too much with it, just put in play and he found a hole for it.
against bounce early game good guys maturity team throughout
This was a good bounce back game for us. We got up early and had good at-bats throughout the game. The guys showed a lot of maturity against a Highland team that is always good fundamentally.
good threw
He was very good today. He threw a good game.