Tony Robichaux Quotations

What we haven't been doing is scoring early. We've gotten better at that. It helps when we can put up runs every other inning, but any team plays better when they trust the pitchers.

He's done everything that we ever ask of a pitcher. We don't ask them to win the game, but we do ask them to put us in a position to win, and he's done that every time.

He's been a tough kid all his life. He's got linebacker mentality. He threw a great game and dominated a good team on the road.

Some of our other pitchers are going to have to step up and help us this week. We're going to have to look at some younger guys.

Regardless of what happens Tuesday (tonight), we're not going to carry it into the weekend. When this one's over, we'll immediately start thinking about and getting ready for the weekend.

Jason did what we needed in our pitching system, staying away from the three-run inning. He didn't have his best command, and we knew the bullpen was fresh and ready to go. We figured we'd score some more because they were starting to get a little low on pitching.

Overall we're starting to do some good things. Tonight and over the last weekend, we're starting to get the barrel back on the ball, and we're turning the lineup over at the bottom of the order and that's making our whole lineup better.

We were able to get some big outs. Brandt got a big out for us, and Farquhar inherited a tough situation because you never know when your big inning will be.

We played the short game some with the wind blowing in.

We've gotten kind of stingy and spoiled by them. But our guys love to play behind them. The guys behind them know they're going to battle hitters and give them a chance to win.

We're happy with where we are, especially where we're coming from. The only negative is we're throwing only about five deep, and someone else among the pitchers has to step up.

We're not playing pitter-patter at the plate any more. We talked to the team about how we were dead last in the conference in hitting, and tonight we came out swinging the bats.

We're going to play a lot of very good baseball teams in league play. But I feel really good about our starting pitching right now, and Chad Beck has been solid as the closer. We're not where we need to be hitting the ball right now, but that will come. I think we'll be a good hitting team before it's over.

What he's doing has spread out all over the lineup. Early in the year we had it packed in front and had issues all over the place.

We're finally getting to the point that we want to play at. We're pitching, playing solid defense and getting some timely hits.

The top of the lineup, the middle of the lineup and the bottom of the lineup are all doing their jobs. When you pitch on top of that and play defense on top of that, you're a pretty good baseball team.

We've got to do better than that one inning. We've got to get an out when they give us one with the bunt. But we righted the ship, (Danny) Farquhar came in and got a couple of big outs and Chad (Beck) did what he's supposed to do in the ninth.

One good thing about it is we're going back with experience on the mound and in the bullpen with Brandt Sanders. And our other guys will get to open at home.

They're starting to learn how to come out and play the same way every day. Coming off a big weekend, Tuesday games become a game of focus, and you have to continue to execute every night.

There's no doubt that every game is important for us the rest of the way. We've got to fix whatever was broken for us Sunday and we'll do that.

I hope we learned a lesson after we got slapped across the face. When you let momentum get away from you, it's hard to get it back and you can't rest until you get back on the bus.

The hitters passed him a little bit where he could come back and use the fast ball.

The ironic thing is that we weren't sure about our starting pitching when we started the season. Now, those guys are all getting aggressive in trying to throw complete games.

They're a good club and they're not going to go away. But with what we're doing, I'm looking forward to coming to the ball park tomorrow.

They're rebuilding, and I know how that feels. It's not an easy situation that he (NSU coach Chip Durham) is in, and we're hoping and pulling for him. Tonight, Buddy just didn't give them any life.

I asked him if he wanted to pitch against them every time. We knew that he had that in him, it was just a matter of putting it together.