Ed Yates Quotations

Overall I thought we played pretty well. For us to get this win, it's a good one to start off with against a good team.

Overall I thought both teams played well. The score was only 4-1 until the seventh when we broke it open.

Overall he pitched real well. He only had two walks. The wind was blowing pretty hard, but overall I thought we played pretty good defense behind him.

That's not bad for a freshman. The two he walked were in the fifth. We threw one of them out trying to steal and we turned a double play to get the other one.

We did what we came here to do. We didn't win the league, but we did what we came to do today.

The good news is that there is some experience there today that we should be able to pull out of the game. And I sure hope we do.

I feel good about this one - it was a good win. Honestly, any win is a good win for us, but this got Buddy some experience on the mound. He moved the ball around and he's really learning how to pitch instead of just throwing.

I've been working with eight guys. There are still some things to piece together, but things are coming around.

Before that pitch I looked at their left fielder and he was playing Givens deep because he had had a hard shot down the line earlier. I looked at the shortstop, because my concern was not the left fielder. I knew darn well he couldn't get to it. My question was, could the shortstop get to it? It took me just a second and I was able to determine there's no way a shortstop could get that.

We're going to find out pretty quick if (Saturday) was a good thing for us or not. From the way the first half shaped out, we have five of our last seven (league) games on the road.