Chris Cauble Quotations

Weston's been drawing walks, but he hasn't been hitting the way he can. Today, he got back to hitting line drives.

We talked about turning it up a notch with Zeb being out. I told the guys that Zeb would love to be out there with them, and they had to play hard for him.

We took advantage of those mistakes, but we forced a lot of those mistakes by running the bases. That's what we're going to have to start doing ? forcing the issue a little bit.

That's typical Moore on the mound. He gets better as the game goes on, and that was evident tonight. We made all the plays on defense, which kept us moving in the right direction.

That's the most I can remember anyone striking out in all my time here. We didn't go to the plate with a mission, and we didn't make any adjustments.

We were going in hoping to win all three, but this makes us have to win our last two. It doesn't matter who we play; we have to come out focused and ready to play. We didn't do that tonight.

We've had some slow starts, but we were very ready to play tonight. Wade pitched it well, we played good defense, and we hit the ball. I was proud.

Billy wasn't in the lineup when we were at East Rowan Saturday, and he got a little upset with me. That's not a bad thing. He showed me tonight he really wants to be in there.

At Northwest, Wade dominated some good hitters. He didn't have his usual zip on the fastball or the bite on his curve tonight, but the really good players still find a way.

Northwest is too good a hitting team to take any kind of chance at all. We had to win. We knew we couldn't get down two games to them.

It's a county rival. Every time we've played, it's been a big game ? it goes back years and years and years. They've kinda owned us the last few outings, so it was a big win for us.

They came out ready to play and we didn't. That showed in the (fourth) inning where they got us out, then they came in and put the bat on the ball. After that, they were into it and we weren't.

I knew Weston had a no-hitter, but it wasn't a priority. The priority was to get a win and to get ready for two conference games this week. We got the win, and any win is a good win for us right now.

He actually got ahead of Church in the count. When we get two strikes on us, we try to shorten our swing and just put it in play. Ninety percent of the time when you do that, you're going to get a good, hard ball hit somewhere.