Jim Bagnall Quotations

We really got after their starter, and then we got into their bullpen, and that helped us out.

Phoenix is tough. Their record doesn't show that, but that doesn't mean a thing in our league. They're solid; they play good defense, pitch it pretty well, and we're going to have to go out and play well - just like every other series we play.

For us, everything is too much of a deficit when we get down five or six runs because we're only averaging two or three runs a game. That might be a bit of a confidence thing with our guys.

We just have to keep getting after it. We need to stay positive and, eventually, things will happen in our favor.

I thought we did well against a good pitching performance by them. We just made some mistakes, and when you make mistakes in a close game, it ends up hurting you.

Some of the errors might have been simple things like a passed ball, a missed ball in the outfield and things like that. It was the ensuing plays that resulted in them scoring their runs.

I think the thing that made a difference for him today, especially late in the game, was his ability to throw the ball inside. He hadn't been able to do that lately. Today, he was able to throw some balls inside to keep them from leaning over the plate looking for a breaking ball or hitting it the other way.

I was really impressed with the way we got emotionally excited in the second game. We got a little mad. I've been looking for us to get mad when we're not playing well or not doing some things. We flat out got mad, and we got determined to see what we could do to win this ballgame. I was really proud of them for showing that.

We needed to get out and win some games. We picked up two of them, so it was a good and positive experience.

We still expect to get these storm systems coming through and dumping occasional heavy rains.

There is indication that next weekend another storm is coming in. A system which will cool things down a bit and bring some precipitation.

This was setting up to be a really wet system. Now there are indications that it won't be quite as significant.

Towers consistently takes good at bats. That's the reason we've put him in there more often and moved Justin (Ross) to play left field. That allows us to put both of them in the lineup.

We went out there and played good baseball, and we did some of the things we were supposed to do. Either team could've won that game. Unfortunately, it just didn't work out for us.

Things that were a little easier to do at one point aren't as easy to do right now because we're struggling a little bit.

The second game just kind of got away from us early, and we weren't able to get back into it.

Offensively, we need to be able to respond and score a few runs here and there to get back in the ballgame.

That's kind of an anything-can-happen kind of forecast. There is a chance for rain pretty much throughout the week.

It's just a slight chance of rain at this point.

I told our hitters we are going to get in situations where our pitchers aren't going to be able to hold (opponents) down as they have been. We scored seven runs. You would think seven runs would be plenty. It's just a little frustrating.

It put us in a hole. We obviously can't give up three in the first inning.

They did an OK job of keeping (Western) off balance. It wasn't their best stuff, but we simply didn't score enough runs.

They just did a nice job of doing what they needed to do.

In the foothills, that's where the heaviest rain will be. Down here in the Valley we're not looking at any significant flooding to threaten homes.

Instead of dealing with just one run or one pitch at a time, I think we're looking at three runs and thinking, 'Oh my gosh, if we don't come back and do something right away, it seems it's going to be an even bigger mountain for us to get over.' We've got to get over that.

In the second game, we got back into it because we were patient. We got people on base and came up with a timely hit here or there and got on top of it.

You commit two unearned runs and lose by one - you can do the math on that one.

All of a sudden they had the bases loaded and no outs, with Colin Thompson on the mound. He did a great job of getting out of that situation.