Andy Lopez Quotations

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

We need as many old guys as we can get.

If they don't get healthy, we've got to find a way to survive without those guys.

Baugh did a marvelous job - my goodness, just a great job. We needed help. Tonight, we really needed a big performance ... and man, he really stepped up.

He doesn't have very good command of his fastball. He's not exactly the Friday-night guy we thought we were going to have. Either he's going to stay the way he is, and we're going to have to score more than five runs, or it's going to be a work in progress.

I thought their guy gutted it out. He hung around for nine innings.

Ironically, I wasn't real happy with our first 10 games. But we had a better record. I'm more happy with our last 10 games.

Mark was not as sharp as he usually is, but that is going to happen from time to time.

That's been our bugaboo for the last six, seven, eight, nine games or so. We're not getting the big hits at all.

We had one bad inning the whole weekend, which turned into a fiasco.

You'd love to have seniors but if you have too many seniors, it means you didn't do very well.

We are looking for that one big hit. That has been the case for the last three or four games in a row. We have a chance to come out of Mississippi State (last weekend) with three wins if we have one big hit here or one big hit there.

We had something planned but we didn't know what to do until Spring Break. Then we found out about Mr. Schiller, and we decided to bring him out.

We were leasing momentum. It definitely wasn't a residential area for us.

Brian called up to tell the outfielders to stay with the ball, because they are going to lose it in the bright white dome.

They all get to that point now. I don't think your season ends tomorrow if you don't win. But you're definitely going in the wrong direction.

That's frustrating. If you have a club that's going to hit 40 to 60 home runs, then you can take that. But you don't want to make mistakes in the air.

It makes life easier, doesn't it? It makes our team easier when they -- for lack of a better word -- produce. It takes a lot of the strain off.

It may not bode well for having a sparkling win-loss record at the end of the year, but you make or break yourself with what you do in the Pac-10.

It's hard to measure what you really are doing if you're playing bad people. When you're playing good people you get a chance to figure things out pretty quickly.

It's not a far-fetched idea that one of these guys may show up with their sons one day on a Little League field built with those proceeds.

Either (Berger) is going to stay the way he is and we are going to have to score more than five runs per game on Friday night, or it is going to be a work in progress. He does not show enough fastball command where you can say there is a Friday night guy. Our guy has the ability.

It was pretty special. It was a great way to show how to not set the tempo. That's probably the one thing this club could not afford to have today.

Hopefully, it's not too much in the genes.

He said he'd felt it for a couple of weeks off and on. He knows we're scuffling. If he could, I think he'd try to hit for us, too, that's just his makeup -- so he didn't want to say anything.