Eli got the big two-out hit to tie the game and for a few innings he is the hero in the dugout. But the tough part of baseball is you are only remembered for what you did in your last at-bat or even your next at-bat.
Quotes about two-out (16 Quotes)
Anytime we get two-out hits and they don't, a lot of times that's the difference in the ballgame. Boomer stranded some guys. That's winning baseball.
For an opening game it was OK. Both starting pitchers had control problems. At bat we had some big two-out hits and the double play on defense was big for us.
When Brooks pitches like that, our whole team feeds off that and we have some momentum. We made some adjustments after our first at bat, and I liked how our offense responded. We had good balance in the lineup and got a couple of two-out hits and that certainly helps you win games. I wasn't happy with our infield defense, but I was excited to see what Joey Side did in centerfield. He made some great plays out there.
Our offense took a 180 degree turn from yesterday. Yesterday we had a lot of guys try to do more than they were capable of. Our approach was a lot better today. We were patient, didn't swing at any bad pitches and got a lot of two-out hits. For our team to be successful that's what we need to do.
That's what it takes to win is pitching, two-out hits and some pretty good defense. Overall, it was a good effort on all sides.
We had our chances to win that game. We had the stage set. A two-out base hit would have put us ahead, and we weren't able to get it. The consistency of that just hasn't been happening for us on enough of a regular basis.
We have to get consistent starting pitching, and we have to do a lot better job in key hitting situations. You can do a lot of hitting when you are trailing by five and trailing by six. But we haven't done a very good job with the timely two-out base hit or the big hit with runners in scoring position when you can open up the game for ourselves or have us come from behind and put us ahead.
We need (P. K.). Last year, a lot of his home runs were in key situations. He has the ability to be a clutch hitter. Any time you can get two-out hits with guys on base, that's money.
The big hit to me was Crawford's two-out base hit, which added the fourth and fifth runs. We were ahead, 3-0, and squandered a couple of opportunities. Then all of a sudden there are two outs, and he hits a ball off the wall. I thought that was the big hit of the ballgame.
We had our chances to win that game, but it boils down, night after night, to the kind of game we had, and I say the same thing. We needed a situational at-bat to tie the game, then a two-out hit would put us ahead.
Right now we don't have anything working, expect for the pitching. The defense is not consistent right now and we're not getting the big hits, no two-out base hits or (sacrifice) flies that we were getting a week ago.
Most baseball people will tell you that trying a two-out bases-loaded squeeze is not a good baseball play. But I knew after the tough 9-6 loss we had Friday night against Blake, we needed a jump-start to get going, and Ricky placed the bunt perfectly to the right of the mound to leg it out for a hit.
They just got the big two-out hits and we didn't, and that was the difference in the ball game. We've got a lot of baseball left.
We figured that would be a good chance to gamble and take a shot. Davies was throwing the ball very well at that point. The odds of trying to get a two-out hit probably weren't in our favor. We thought we'd go ahead and gamble, and it worked.
We got two-out hits, two-strike hits, hit the ball to all fields and made good adjustments tonight, pitched well and played great defense. That might have been our best game of the year.