Dan Callahan Quotations

Scott challenged us all day long and they outplayed us.

Shafer was pretty darn good today. I've never seen more balls hit off the handle in all of my life. If we were using wooden bats, they'd be shattered all over the field.

Obviously, with the success of basketball and football, his imprint is apparent. But he's also done a lot with the non-revenue sports and has helped bring the budget under control. Finding the right leader is imperative right now.

I'd like to see us become more consistent on defense, but there were some good plays that kept us in the game. We struggled some offensively, but had some clutch hits, and pitched well enough to win a close game.

I thought he did a very good job of competing. He was basically getting by with two pitches.... As much as anything, he just had a good fastball.

It is something we have to address. We aren't going to win many close games by making those types of plays. Those were routine plays and there are no excuses for the way we're kicking the ball around right now.

I thought Shane Garner did an excellent job today, not only doing just what you're supposed to do, to go in, throw strikes and compete, but just slowing it down, creating some semblance of order. It didn't seem like we had that with Matt Brewer in the game. Things were just crazy and some of that was not his fault, but some of it was.

Our starting pitching was, to put it bluntly, lousy this weekend. We know we're having some defensive problems, but we can't expect to be a contending team in the Valley with starting pitching like that.

Our starting pitching has been consistent and our bullpen seems to be stabilized. We are playing pretty good baseball right now.

Matt hasn't been out there much. He hasn't been in that situation often. However, when it's all said and done, he is going to be a factor.

I thought his velocity would increase dramatically in college. But that didn't happen. We didn't see dramatic change. He's throwing 79-82 mph. But he has excellent command of four pitches.

Those two types of pitchers complement each other well. Anytime you give up four hits with aluminum bats in any game is a pretty good pitching performance. Adam and Matt were outstanding today.

We are going to go up there and take care of business.

Dusty did a great job and you could tell he wanted to be out there in that situation.

I've seen Tyler better than he was today. He's not going to pitch like that in the future. He just didn't have a good day.

It was an ESPN highlight. There wasn't anything wrong with the bunt or the runner. Matt just made an unbelievable play.

It's a difficult task to win four games in any series against any team. That's a good ball club over there, so we're happy.

It's too bad Baker left that pitch up. The kid hit it pretty well, but it was just a slider that didn't do anything. He didn't seem to have a lot today. Sometimes you just have to work through that.

It's taken longer than I would have thought. I guess it's a milestone, but I wish it happened earlier than it did.

It's nice to be mentioned in the same breath as some of the teams in the 70s. When you're playing well, winning can be contagious.

His coming was a godsend. We needed that personality to guide the museum through the early days. When he came on board, it was a foregone conclusion that it would be a success.

He basically has a patent on that type of performance. He's done a great job as a both a closer and set-up man for us before, so it was nice to see him pitch well as a starter, too.