Ernie Beck Quotations

Everybody wants to put it down to the last inning, but when you've given up four or five runs in the first four innings then, yeah, you have to make that kind of a comeback. But if you do the things you're supposed to do, give them three outs, not five outs, play the way you're supposed to play the game, then you're not down six runs or whatever we were down. You might be down a run or two.

We weren't ready. I told them it was a focus issue. Hopefully, it's a wake-up call.

I think it's a big disadvantage because I think you need to be playing. It's one thing to practice. ... About six or seven years ago we had a similar situation. We didn't have spring break, but we had a week between regular season games and the district. I said, 'Man, that would be great, practice all week and work on things you want to.' We were flat as can be going into districts.

They made mistakes, we made mistakes, left people on base. They just got the break in the end.

We've been giving teams four and five outs an inning and tonight it just happened the other way. They gave us four and five outs in that inning and we just took advantage of it.

What you're seeing is that the kids aren't going to give up and they can explode at any time. We have a lot of confidence in them and I just think that right now they're just not quite there.