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We're still hunting and trying to find ourselves. The bats are coming around, and our pitching has been pretty solid. Our conference is really tough this year. Any team can get beat anywhere on any given day.

We're starting to put together some pitching and defense with our hitting. We are improving every day, and have eight games in six days this week to work on all the things we'll need to be successful during districts.

We've got more arms than we've had in a long time. And the thing about it is they are good. We've got some guys who can really pitch. It's going to be an exciting year from a pitching standpoint.

We've got guys who are capable of pitching 200 innings, which is something they've done in the past. I don't think we're asking anything that they can't do or haven't done. We've been healthy this spring, and that's good.

We've got everybody healthy and we used a lot of guys today. We've got 11 or 12 guys swinging the bats well right now but our pitching is going to have to carry us from here on out. But we feel like we're in good shape for conference and I feel like we're as good as anybody in the state right now.

We've tried to have it here. I'd like to know I have the pitching strength. Bethany can move the ball better than the other three. Nichole can pitch really fast. Emily and Michelle are young and they have a lot to learn.

We have said over and over again that pitching is the priority when it comes to building our club.

We have to get better pitching performances. When you face a team like Fullerton, you know their Friday night guy is going to be there for six or seven innings.

We have a solid pitching staff and should be solid defensively. We should be a competitive team in a very strong division.

We have no control on what's going to happen. He could be acquired by another team or he could just walk away from us. That would be a setback for us, because we know he is capable of pitching well, and he could end up doing it for someone else.

When you score nine runs, these are games you have to win, no doubt about it. When your best thing is the pitching staff and you score nine runs for the pitching staff we've had all year, no way we should have lost. We have to look in the mirror and pitch better.

We want him to keep pitching well, maybe work on his breaking ball. It just doesn't fit for us right now, but it will again.

We were aware of their pitching staff and fortunately, we were able to win and this probably bodes well for the (tournament's) next games.

We want to take advantage of playing on our home field. Columbia and Cornell are both great teams. Both squads have great pitching and great hitting and we're not underestimating that, but we can do just as well.

I just reared back and let them go.

I could be a real jerk on the days I was pitching.

I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.

When I gave up a grand slam to Pete LaCock, I knew it was time to quit.

We were impressed that a young kid could make the jump from high-A to competing at the big-league level in Colorado. This was an opportunity for us to continue to build our inventory of young, major league-level pitching prospects.

We'll be focusing on holding them to three runs or less, and our pitching has been strong enough to do that.

We'll see where we get with it. He's a terrific pitching coach. His track record has spoken.

We'll see where that takes us. If I'm pitching, I'm pitching - I don't care where. I want to pitch in the big leagues, ultimately.

If you're a pitcher, and you're pitching and you strike me out and you start celebrating on the mound and showing me off, whenever I get a hit off you, I'm going to go and celebrate, and you shouldn't get mad. If you're a pitcher and strike me out and show me respect and you don't show me up, when I get a homer or a hit, I'm not going to show you up. That's what I believe.

We always have a good time coming to this tournament. We played well and fought hard in our games. The wind made it tough on the hitters, so pitching and defense took over.

We always felt that pitching was the most important aspect of the game and we caught ourselves at times, especially in the middle of the season, not dedicating enough time for those guys to get their work in. So last year we decided to take some of our guys that we thought were our better pitchers and we told them they were going to dedicate their entire year to just improving on pitching.

The Republican Party seems unwilling and unable to offer solutions to the crises we are facing, other than pitching the same failed ideas that got us into the mess we are in the first place.

When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.

We are going to have to score against them. Our defense is fine, our pitching is OK. It's just a situation that we are going to have to score when we need it.

This was as good of a pitching outing by three people that I could hope for. We had the Great White Shark mentality I've been preaching about.

We are hitting a lot better. Defense and pitching were also very strong for us.

We did have some opportunities because of the errors. We did capitalize on one of them, but their pitching was just too good. Colon is one of the best pitchers in the league and he showed that again against us.

Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world

We're playing better now than we have all season. Hopefully, we can get a good pitching performance, continue to play good defense and scratch out some runs.

We're playing as good as anyone right now. Our starting pitching has been good all year, our bullpen is the best in the league, and now we're starting to get production from the bottom of our order, which is huge.

We've been hitting the ball better but our pitching is giving us a chance to win every game. That may the hardest Kyle has ever thrown. He was outstanding.

We really had a lot of talent (at Frederick). It was the youngest team in the league and the staff (including pitching coach Scott McGregor, the former Oriole) did an incredible job. They just kept improving.

We're 4-0 and tickled to be there. We've been getting it done with our defense. We haven't been hitting like we'd like to, but our pitching and fielding have been good. When our hitting comes around, we're going to be tough to be beat. We've been winning on our defense so far.

We ran into some pitching troubles. This is our sixth game here and we're a little rough around the edges.

We're armed and ready. We definitely have the pitchers. This is probably the best pitching staff I've had since I've been here. We'll go as far as our pitching takes us.

We're a player short for a day or two because of Branyan. We thought it was more important to have an extra player on the bench. It's only for, what, five games because we're off Monday. And if we run into pitching problems we can always turn right around and bring someone up.

We hit the ball well and we had a good pitching and defensive performance. It was a good game for us.

We hit the ball well and got solid pitching from Jason. We had nine guys in the lineup come up with at least one base hit.

We did really well down there. We got better as the week went on. We got solid pitching performances out of Philip Dean and Patrick Cooper down there.

We did our part on the pitching but didn't get it done offensively today. We have to keep playing to see if we can put together some hits and get going.

We use stats. We use a little bit of everything. We're open to fresh ideas. Look at Houston and the White Sox. Their pitching carried them to the World Series. I think that's the model we're going to stick with.

We're just trying to get these guys to swing the bat. Our pitching will be good. We just don't get guys on base.

We have improve and I hope that we continue to. We've cut down on our errors, know we have to improve in other areas. Sometimes we hit good and we don't pitch good or our defense is not good. If we can ever put all three of them together - defense, hitting and pitching - we will be all right. Hopefully we will do it during the Easter tournament.

We're looking to add depth to our pitching staff, so I was very pleased with what he did today.

We're happy to come to terms with Toby. He's an instrumental part of what we're trying to do as we develop a young pitching staff.

This winter we have set our sights on going back to sort of the old-fashioned Braves way of building championship teams with dominant pitching. That's what we think we have done and we are excited about the pitching staff we have put together for the season.

We've talked about that for awhile, ... It's something we'll continue to look at very closely. ... His velocity is good and at times he throws to his pitching spots, and that needs to continue. ... We feel he has enough in his tank to do what any of our starters need to do down the stretch.

When he is not pitching he can play anywhere. He is really invaluable to this team not only is he the No. 1 pitcher he is just a utility player that can play anywhere else.

We had a very hard time last year against some of the league's better pitching. We're going up against some good pitching again so that will be our challenge this season.

We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right - one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in.

The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good.

He (Bill Terry) once hit a ball between my legs so hard that my center-fielder caught it on the fly backing up against the wall.

It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?

I know who's the best pitcher I ever see and it's old Satchel Paige, that big lanky colored boy. My fastball looks like a change of pace alongside that little pistol bullet ole Satchel (Paige) shoots up to the plate.

I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?

Me and Paul (Dean) will probably win forty games (they won forty-nine).

We were deep in our pitching staff and it was a chance for some other guys to step up and Oxford took advantage of it. We made mistakes and they made us pay for them.

We were calling pitches to pitch around Ovens, but the pitchers weren't pitching it. It's that simple. We weren't calling for fastballs down the middle with base-runners on with the best hitter on their team standing there. They couldn't hit spots, and if you couldn't hit spots, he'll hit the ball.

We needed a better pitching performance. When you face teams like Fullerton, they're always going to have a good Friday-night guy.

When we scheduled these games, we thought we were going to have mid-week starters. If I had known we'd be this thin with our pitching staff, I wouldn't have scheduled these games.

When things are working, it's the greatest thing. When I'm out there pitching and I have a catcher putting down the finger for the pitch I want to throw and I've already got that gripped, that's a great rapport.

The pitching was very good for both sides. We made one terrible mistake in the fifth inning and a guy hit one out and that was the difference in the game as far as I'm concerned.

The pitching was solid. Jake did a good job of getting out of that inning. If we're going to do anything state-wise, we've got to have Jake throwing well.

The pitching was really good for the most part. South Alabama's (junior) pitcher P.J. Walters was great for them. Friday night's game was more of a pitchers' duel. Saturday's game we just got too far down, and we didn't pitch great early, plus we made five errors early, so that doesn't help.

The pitching was good tonight. It was just our bats went cold after the first inning.

The pitching was excellent. The pitchers definitely should've had a better outcome. We had two errors that cost us two runs, plus a couple of mental errors that cost us another run or two.

The pitching still needs a little attention. They've all got to learn to be a little more careful where they put it, hit their spots, and not just throw it right in there, because they did that some, and got hit pretty hard a few times. We'll be fine. They survived. Our schedule isn't great, because we start so early, but it is nice that we now have two weeks off, because we can use 10 days or so to regroup, and build some of that confidence back up.

The pitching staff will continue to develop. But get ready for a lot of Reynolds going to the mound. We're going to build stamina with these guys.

The pitching staff has carried this team the whole year, but it's nice when you score a lot of runs.

The pitching staff has a sense of comfort with him. He has stepped in and done a great job. He has helped stabilize this team behind the plate, and given us some offense, too.

The pitching really has to carry us; our pitching so far hasn't carried any leads and our offensive has had to put big innings. We need to win games 5-3, 4-2 and our pitching needs to help us out.

The pitching prospects really look good and I am very excited about that.

The pitching looked good and the defense looked pretty good. It took a little while to get our bats warm, but we hit the ball from the get-go we just hit it at them.

The pitching is what kept us in games, but if you're not hitting, you're not going to win,

The pitching is upholding its end. Our offense is just a click off. When it gets there, we'll have a pretty good lineup.

The pitching is there, the defense is there, we've just got to find a way to score more runs. Our mental approach is lacking.

The pitching is getting better. We just need to figure out a way to limit our errors.

The pitching is a big core. You look at the Chicago White Sox, what they did last year, the New York Yankees, when they were in their heyday, they had pitching and that's what wins championships. You're very seldom going to slug it out with a team in the playoffs.

The pitching in this district is just phenomenal and two runs may just win us games.

The pitching has been great. They all want the ball. It's making it tough for me when I get to the ballpark, because I see all these guys going to my office and they all want the ball. But we've got to make a decision and tonight it was the right one.

The pitching has been great on both sides. It's what you expect in the playoffs. When you have a close series like this, it usually comes down to who gets the clutch hits.

The pitching for our team was really exceptional.

The pitching and defense have been very good all season. We thought at the beginning that we would have a good pitching staff and good defense and they've done very well so far.

Makeup-wise he's a tough kid, a competitor, no excuses, holds himself accountable. Pitching consistent and down with his stuff are going to be big for him in spring training.

Let's let the pitchers concentrate on pitching for a while and then we'll get them their at-bats. Pitchers are getting plenty of batting practice, but we can't win if they don't get people out.

Leo certainly knew his pitching -- don't get me wrong. But McDowell can relate because he played.

Losing Veal and Gilbert and not replacing them has created a void, but the pitching rotation is stronger (overall).

Louie's value is the fact he can help a pitching staff.

Last year with that pitching staff, we should've gone a little bit further. If they didn't pick up anyone, it would've looked like they don't care. But I know they care. They showed to all of us that they want to win. I really want to see this lineup.

(LeRoy) is playing his tail off. He's really, really helping out on defense. It helps our pitching to have a shortstop playing third base.

Sean threw fantastic. It was good to get him some early runs. We've started stringing together those timely hits, and it helps the pitching staff.

So far, the pitching has been very good. The hitters are still getting their timing down. The pitching has remained consistent and we are scoring enough to win and getting some timely hits.

So far that's the best pitching we've faced this year.

She's really pitching well. This year she started off so much more consistent. She's worked hard. She makes it look easy but she works hard and deserves her success.

She's pitching good, and basically, she keeps us in ball games. It's just kind of how it has worked out. Our senior lefty got hurt, and Kelly came in and just got better and better.

Olivia Mauro did a really nice job coming in as relief and containing them. That's the kind of performance we're looking for from our pitching staff.