Tim Corbin Quotes (21 Quotes)

Baseball is one of those games where if you do the right things, it will come back to you.

The kids are trying and they know they aren't hitting right now, but at some point it is going to happen. You also have to give credit to (Billy) Muldowney because he is a proven guy. He knows what he is doing and I thought he pitched a heck of a game. His fastball was good and he mixed his pitches very well tonight.

Pitching and defense was the key today. The pitchers threw strikes and I thought Pedro (Alvarez) and Ryan (Flaherty) made some nice plays at the corner infield spots.

Dominic has had some big hits here before. He is one of those guys that keeps plugging away. He comes down here every single day with the same plan and he is just eager to start hitting the ball again. He is a good player and you know that he is not going to be down for long.

I thought David went out and had his best game of the year. You could tell this was coming as he has been getting stronger each time out. It was good to see him get the win after a tough loss in his outing last week.

I hope it gives us a little bit of confidence, but it's only the fourth game of the season. The situation today was really miserable for both teams, but we scored nine runs early which carried us through. I wish we could have hit a little better after the fourth inning, but we didn't. We just have to keep working and practicing hard.

David did well to pitch seven innings against a good hitting team like Ole Miss. He kept them down and we made him throw a few more pitches than what we would like to because of our defense. We had some young kids playing for the first time against a good team on their home field and those things happen.

David pitched well enough to win today. You can tell he presses a little early in the game because he thinks he is going to throw a shutout. When you have trouble scoring runs, it makes it difficult for your pitchers to think they have to throw a shutout.

Offensively, I was pleased with way we've swung the bats the last two days. Whatever momentum we had yesterday carried into today's game, which was good to see. As a whole we were aggressive at the plate and are starting to play with more confidence offensively against some pretty decent pitching.

We were very opportunistic tonight offensively. We did a good job of battling in a few at bats and also had some key two-out hits that brought in runs.

Pedro is hitting good pitches. He is a talented kid that if he gets strikes he is able to hit the ball pretty well.

I thought we were better offensively today. We came out strong early and were aggressive on the bases and took advantage of some situations to score a few more runs.

Parker had a good day today. He hit the ball hard and he hit it the other way. Dominic did as well, that is their strength. When they start using the whole field they become better hitters.

We're very happy with Ryan Flaherty and his performance today. He had a big triple and also added a single and double in his three at-bats. Ryan did a great job at the plate today.

Price did a good job and got to the seventh inning against a good-hitting team. He threw 125 pitches, and that's high. I don't like doing that.

I really don't care what they do. You're going to see those three pitchers anyway. Boyce is a proven guy. He's pitched in the College World Series, so he's good. It doesn't really matter.

Cody did a good job today and holding Ball State to only a run was important. Tyler did a solid job coming in and closing out the game. It's tough for him to be very sharp because he hasn't pitched a lot, but he is a guy that is really going to help us.

I don't think he had his best stuff, but I think he pitched pretty good. Any time we were close to scoring runs, he got the job done.

We were more patient at the plate today but offensively we are still not where we want to be yet. We were better yesterday, but today we had some chances to blow some innings open and we didn't get it done.

We pitched well at the end today and played good defense all weekend. We didn't make an error and had 31 hits in three games, not bad for a young group that is still finding their way.

I thought our pitching and defense carried us in this game. Pedro not only led us at the plate, but made some good defensive plays at third as well.