Troy Schaefer Quotations

To our guys credit, they never quit playing and I'm very proud of that.

One of our goals is that we want to score first and jump on top and put pressure on other teams to perform. If we do that, we have a chance to be successful.

They are a good hitting team, no doubt about it. I thought Ryan had some of his pitches up today early on. But you have to give credit to their team.

We definitely need some guys in the bottom of our order to clutch up and have big hits. It's about executing and doing all the littler things. We gotta do that at the bottom half. Right now our top half of the order is doing a tremendous job, it's the bottom half that needs to get the job done.

They had a very good inning and scored a bunch of runs. They are a very good baseball team.

It was a great time to do it. Derek Hendrickson gave our team a huge lift. He came in and went right at their hitters and kept the game close. Derek did exactly what we asked him to do and then Nick came in and did a great job and held them where they were.

When you lose a couple and you didn't play your best baseball and the runs aren't coming, sometimes you might be pressing a little bit. But I thought our guys were comfortable. They were taking their hacks up there, being aggressive.

Our defense made plays. If your defense makes plays, you have a chance to win a lot of ball games.

We made a lot of errors and when you make a lot of errors you aren't going to win a lot of games. If you take away the errors the game probably would have been much closer.

Ryan has a huge heart and he's a very competitive person. He pitched on guts today and I'm proud of him.