Pat Casey Quotations

We were in a great position to sweep a club that we feel we're a better club than, and we just didn't play well today.

She's one of the hardest hitters we have.

Maxwell hasn't given us the same starts as last year and that concerns us. And we need to get better out of the pen.

Getting back to our ballpark is something we're looking forward to. Our fans are terrific, and it will be a big lift to our guys to play in front of them for the first time this season.

We're a little bit nicked; we just have to get ourselves on track. Our pitching has been a little short of the mark, but I think we'll be just fine.

We've done a little better job at the plate. I think we've played with a little more energy, and it's always good to be at home.

We play 56 games. We expect to win them all, but we're not going to. We're just trying to find our way around.

We're excited about that. We've played 10 on the road, and we need to continue to go out and get ourselves ready to play the next series.

We've been a little banged up and sometimes it feels like we've been on a bus or a plane most of the time since the start of the season.

We gave them a lot of extra opportunities. They're a good club in their own yard, and we didn't play very well. We gave the extra opportunities and they took advantage of them.

Eddie was lights-out, that's the best I've seen him throw. He was fabulous.

Right now we're just trying to find a way to win. Hopefully when we put it all together, it's going to take some pressure off the fact our pitching has to go out and put zeroes on the board all the time.

This is the best conference in the nation from top to bottom without question. It is a great benchmark to have that we are not happy that we didn't sweep Arizona. That is the way we feel about ourselves. As a club, we thought we should have swept.

It's really important (recruiting the Oregon high school players). We take pride in what those kids can do. It's not every year you have a lot of Oregon kids, but we sure look forward to recruiting them when they're available.

That's our best option right now. Cole has the ability to get on base, and hit gap-to-gap. He just has to continue to maximize his strengths.

Summer is not a down time as far as the year goes. Summer is probably their most hectic time. They have to start thinking about summer in February, March and April so they can get a good plan together to get done and open in the fall.

It was a good win against a very good club on the road.

It was a difficult day because it was so long, and I thought our guys handled it real well.

That's a great win. Dallas was battling and he gave us a great start. We had a big inning off one of the best guys in the country, and any time you can win the first game of a series, you'll take it.

That's a good win. For the most part, we executed at the plate, made some big plays at key times and got some terrific pitching.

I just wish we could do a little better offensively. I give their guy a lot of credit. I thought he was good.

In the past, it was a fall-back plan, a way to grab some surge capacity. Today, it needs to be a permanent commitment, especially with predicted import growth.

He's a pretty physical player. It gets you ready for Friday.

He believes in himself now. That's the main thing as far as hitting is concerned. Once a guy is convinced he can hit, they're pretty tough to stop.

You've got to learn how to read the ball, learn the pursuit angles, and learn which base to throw to.