Brian Gruber Quotes (17 Quotes)

You get out there and you play hard, but a victory lets you know in the back of your mind that all your hard work is paying off. It's early in the year, but it is nice to get a win to build the confidence.

The guys are doing a nice job and they keep battling. We're just in a little defensive funk right now. It's more mentally than any thing. They just have to keep their confidence levels up there.

We can't afford to give teams extra outs. We're killing ourselves defensively and need to tighten things up.

Matt pitched real well for us with five strikeouts and only one walk. He had command of all his pitches.

We are playing good baseball right now, we are not committing turnovers like we were earlier in the year.

Matt really stepped it up. He didn't have his best stuff but went out and pitched a complete game. Our hitting was a little better in the second game. Zach got a big hit with two outs. We still have work to do with hitting and defense.

Zach threw strikes and let his defense work behind him.

That says a lot about our ball club. The guys keep battling with two out and the other team may think the inning is over and let up a little bit and we kept getting the big hits.

The guys were not willing to lose the ball game, it didn't matter what the score was. Everyone was picking each other up.

Our pitchers did a great job today, I have to tip my hat to those guys.

We tightened things up defensively. We are playing defense well and we did the small things like getting fly balls and moving our runners over.

They hit the ball hard and with the wind blowing, they deserved the doubles and home runs they hit. We kept up with them, but gave them too many extra outs.

Ryan hit another ball right to the wall. He looked much more comfortable at the plate today.

Overall we did a pretty decent job today. We played well defensively. Our two errors were throwing errors on relay plays. They were nothing really major. Our pitchers did a nice job. We don't have a pitching staff that will get a lot of strikeouts. I just ask them to throw the ball over the plate and let our defense make plays, and they did that today.

I was especially proud of the fact that they refused to lose. Different players stepped up for us all day long. The timely hitting that we had yesterday continued today.

They are ranked fifth in the nation and hit the ball well. We played well defensively in both games and hit the ball decent, considering the pitching.

We have to do something to make things happen. With the wind blowing in, it was a tough day. We had the right situation up.