We didn't deserve to win that game. We had opportunities to win, but we ... made so many mistakes in that fourth inning, it was just a game in which we made far too many mistakes to deserve to win.
Offensively, we're sticking to the game plan and we're playing really good baseball. The guys had really good approaches.
We've finished second in the conference two years in a row, but to get over the hurdle you've got to be able to put runs on the board. We've played a lot of low-scoring ballgames and we didn't score early in a ballgame ... so we kept coming back late.
There is no question he is going to help us. Going into this weekend ... there is a possibility he would start the fourth game of the series.
We want to play this series one game at a time, really roll the dice and possibly go after it. Possibly, I may even move (senior shortstop/pitcher Ryan) Schmidgall to Game 3 starter.
We had good enough pitching that we should have won both games (on Sunday), but the could of, would of, should of window is getting old. We not only didn't hit with runners in scoring position but we struck out.
It was nice to beat a Big 10 team again. The win against Michigan State is a good morale booster for us going into these next six games before conference starts.
We've put ourselves in a hole ... and right now I don't care what anybody's record is, we can only worry about ourselves. We're just not playing consistent baseball in all four aspects of the game day in and day out.
We're going to go right after them in Game 1 ... because I think it's very important to win the first game of that series.