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