Tom Slater
Tom Slater
Tom Slateris a Welsh rugby union footballer currently playing for Welsh Premier Division side Cardiff RFC. His position is at scrum-half...
felt game good kids last lose night played tough
Last night was a tough, tough, tough loss. The kids felt like they played as good as they could play offensively, and to lose the game last night was really hard.
faced fact friday game good lots means night pitching played schedule speed tough
The fact that we've played such a tough schedule means that the game won't speed up on Friday night for us. We've played a good schedule so far, faced lots of good pitching and lots of good teams.
changes good job kids night played today
Every one of the kids that was in the lineup today has played well. I'm not going to make lineup changes after one night of us not doing a very good job of making adjustments.
gave handled people second shot
We were the first people he called because things were handled the right way during the first go-round. That gave us a shot at getting him the second time.
generation gets stuff
With every generation of collections stuff gets slimmer and slimmer and slimmer.
chris credit forward good hard step time tried week work
You have to credit Chris because he's tried to work through it. He just has a hard time getting all his work in. We just want to see Chris be at 100 percent. Hopefully, he made a step forward for that this week and he'll be good enough to go this weekend.
built develop good helping job kids recruiting since tim
Vanderbilt, since Tim has been there, they've been built around their pitching. They did a really good job of helping those kids develop and they've done a good job of recruiting their pitching.
anybody beating capable consistent country fairly losing pattern record
As the record indicates, we've been fairly inconsistent. We're capable of beating anybody in the country and capable of losing to anybody in the country. That has been the consistent pattern with this club.
opportunity presented regain
We've been presented with an opportunity to regain access, and we will make the most of it.
fall football practice roles spring training
Fall practice to us is like spring training to the football team. This is where roles are defined.
alabama came dominated environment hostile performance pitching south strike tail zone
What an outstanding pitching performance by Clarence Nicely. He came out and dominated the strike zone and really got us into the game. Clarence came into a very hostile South Alabama environment and pitched his tail off. That was a big-time performance by him.
good terrible
We weren't good at the plate. We had terrible approaches.
good mike plate quality terrible
We weren't good at the plate tonight. We had terrible approaches. Not to take anything away from Mike Cisco, but up and down the lineup, we didn't have enough quality at-bats.
approaches days good job kids offense phases playing three
We did a good job of playing offense three days in a row. I thought our kids had good approaches at the plate. (Sunday), just like Friday, we had all three phases of the game: Pitching, defense, offense - I thought we did OK.