Latest / Coaches Corner / Jim Penders ETSU May 3

Transcript

Jim Penders ETSU May 3 · Coaches Corner

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Well, salvage a win, but eight hundred, man, you've been
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: here a long time. Congratulations on that little monumental achievement there.
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Thanks. Chris Pidez has been with me for every
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: single one of them, so he got them too.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: And oh so it's like Gino and daily right.
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've also got the record for losses as a
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: Yukon skipper too, so but no, it's nice to get
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: it out of the way and onto uh exams.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: Now, yeap, not an easy one today, but you got
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: one big inning and that's all you needed.
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, it was torture watching our bats today,
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: and I think we had worshipt bats today than we
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: did yesterday, and that was gonna be hard to do.
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: And you know, maybe the break's coming out at the
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: right time. It felt like our I felt like a
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: week ago we were really coming together and things looked
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: really good. And then go to Rutgers and then we
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: beat a good team there and and something just you know,
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: these guys, these guys played with a hell of a
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: lot more confidence than we played with and they're a
• 0:55
  Speaker 2: good ball club. I think, you know, they were elevated
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: to great at times because of that confidence. They were
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: or they were excellent, and so we had we Yeah,
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: Jackson thankfully got one somehow through that win. I mean,
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: I didn't think anything was gonna have a chance. If
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: that's a normal day, it might go five hundred feet,
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: because that's he needed all of it to And it's
• 1:13
  Speaker 2: still I think it was almost you know, we didn't
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: know it was gone until we saw it disappear behind
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: the wall. But he wants to be up in those situations.
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: We don't have enough guys who want to be up
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: in those situations. We need to find more guys who
• 1:25
  Speaker 2: want to be up in those situations. But Jackson all
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: year has relished the moment, the big moment, and you know,
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: it's it's I was just glad that it was him
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: in the box at that point. You know, he had
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: he had an opportunity yesterday or the day before with
• 1:39
  Speaker 2: the bases loaded and didn't cash in. And today, you know,
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: today he had it and he made the most of it.
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: Jim, you've mentioned when this team falls behind, there's just
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: something about this team that has, you know, more times
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: than not, not able to come back here. What's the mindset?
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: Suddenly Ferguson right out of the box lines went a
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: home run and Little then leads off the second. Does
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: the mindset change? Did your or did you feel a
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: change for your guys in the way they took their
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: at bats?
• 2:04
  Speaker 2: Well, no, unfortunately I didn't. I mean it the malay Well,
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: I shouldn't say that. I mean, I think if if
• 2:10
  Speaker 2: we see you know, I called called them up in
• 2:14
  Speaker 2: the fifth or sixth, It's like, guys, I know, it
• 2:15
  Speaker 2: seems insurmountable. It's two runs. It's two runs. And I'm
• 2:18
  Speaker 2: being you know, sarcastic, which I probably shouldn't be doing
• 2:21
  Speaker 2: in the middle of a game. But it's just like,
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: how many times are we going to do this to
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: ourselves where we squeeze the heck out of the bat,
• 2:27
  Speaker 2: or we're going out of the zone, we're swinging it.
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: We're getting ourselves out today. Oh oh, counts at a
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: record pace, advantage counts weak contact. I think we hit
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: maybe three ball four balls hard. That's to be a
• 2:41
  Speaker 2: little bit generous. I mean walked here had one, can
• 2:44
  Speaker 2: Sell had one, Jackson Marshall had one, and the cam
• 2:47
  Speaker 2: Riggie had a solid one to the left center early.
• 2:50
  Speaker 2: But other than that, it was it was non existent.
• 2:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, it was it was pretty awful. Yeah, that
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: was at four hard contacts. So even our first hit
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: was soft up the middle. So it's it's got to change.
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: We got to get in the cages. And I don't
• 3:04
  Speaker 2: think it's it's all that much mechanical. There's a couple
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: of guys struggling with the mechanics right now. Polomine he
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: needs some work, but mostly it's mental and that's really
• 3:13
  Speaker 2: hard to fix. So maybe we need a little break
• 3:16
  Speaker 2: away from each other. And and we're not gonna have
• 3:18
  Speaker 2: the full team together until Wednesday. We'll do some some
• 3:21
  Speaker 2: lifting Tuesday. Wednesday, we'll have split squads on Tuesday, so
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: I won't have them all back to Wednesday. Maybe they
• 3:28
  Speaker 2: need a break from us too. I don't know, it's
• 3:30
  Speaker 2: it's uh but we got nine when we got uh
• 3:34
  Speaker 2: seven left in the regular season. That's all we're guaranteed,
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: and you got to make the most of those. And
• 3:38
  Speaker 2: then the IRA They ironic part is that we still
• 3:43
  Speaker 2: have our goals in front of us. You know, you
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: can still have a chance at a Big East regular
• 3:47
  Speaker 2: season championship. And then obviously you know we got to
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: qualify for PRASCO and and and winning the biggest Tournament's
• 3:54
  Speaker 2: the only way that we're going to get to play
• 3:56
  Speaker 2: in June. So you know, those things are still in
• 3:59
  Speaker 2: front of us, and can't lose sight of that and
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: can't get negative. We've got to keep keep plugging away,
• 4:03
  Speaker 2: keep coaching these guys and hopefully something clicks. I've seen
• 4:06
  Speaker 2: us play with confidence. I thought last weekend it was there,
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: you know, and then this weekend we take a step back.
• 4:12
  Speaker 2: So hopefully a little break I'll do some good.
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: Jim thoughts on pitching today, al Ra Podvar battled once
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: again as you would expect, gave us six and two thirds.
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: Evan Hamburger hasn't pitched a ton this year. He was
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: effective and then shot going a bat break in the
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: ninth inning with that fly ball the right field in
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: hill Man's land. But your bullpen was good today.
• 4:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're in no doubles there, and we knew as
• 4:32
  Speaker 2: soon as it went up that was a trouble that
• 4:35
  Speaker 2: ball was going to fall or had a good chance
• 4:37
  Speaker 2: to fall, because we've got Polomini pretty much on the
• 4:40
  Speaker 2: warning track there and we've got to prevent the double.
• 4:43
  Speaker 2: We wind up giving up a double, but you'd rather
• 4:45
  Speaker 2: have it like that. Than than over their heads. So
• 4:49
  Speaker 2: it's one of those things like prevent defense in football,
• 4:51
  Speaker 2: sometimes it prevents you from winning. But you know, but
• 4:55
  Speaker 2: I thought, yeah, the pitchers did a fantastic job. They
• 4:57
  Speaker 2: were excellent, and they you know, the starting pitching just
• 4:59
  Speaker 2: been herring us for weeks and weeks. Now, Pud was pud.
• 5:03
  Speaker 2: You know, he didn't he bent, but he but he
• 5:06
  Speaker 2: didn't break. And you know those two cheapies, you know,
• 5:09
  Speaker 2: they don't go out on a normal day, which you
• 5:10
  Speaker 2: gotta be able to pitch inside. I thought he did
• 5:12
  Speaker 2: a better job of that, with the exception of those
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: two that got out. I thought you got in pretty
• 5:17
  Speaker 2: well on their hitters and made him uncomfortable. And you know,
• 5:20
  Speaker 2: it's one of those days at Elliott Ballpark where a
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: wind was going to dictate how everybody was pitching. They
• 5:24
  Speaker 2: tried to pitch us in the right handed hitters in
• 5:27
  Speaker 2: and had some pretty good success doing that too. So
• 5:30
  Speaker 2: you pitched to the ballpark, he pitched to the wind,
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: and fortunately our our guy just got one out, uh
• 5:36
  Speaker 2: and in the right spot. That was it all right? Right,
• 5:40
  Speaker 2: Hamburger was excellent. You've been waiting on Evan Hamburger. Evan
• 5:43
  Speaker 2: Hamburger in the preseason was our most dominant pitcher. I
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: mean he he absolutely shoved against our own bats. I
• 5:50
  Speaker 2: mean he was just electric. His stuff was unhittable, and
• 5:54
  Speaker 2: he was super hittable in the early season, and he
• 5:58
  Speaker 2: kind of he didn't make some he was kind of
• 6:00
  Speaker 2: buried back there. He's starting to emerge now as a
• 6:03
  Speaker 2: lefty specialist. But then his stuff looks so sharp that
• 6:06
  Speaker 2: we want to leave him, you know, for Curloss. And
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: then it was like, man, did we just stay with
• 6:10
  Speaker 2: him because it looks like he's got it? And then
• 6:11
  Speaker 2: I just thought it was time. If we were going
• 6:13
  Speaker 2: to lose it, I want to lose it with Shaw
• 6:14
  Speaker 2: on the mound and not have Evan in that spot.
• 6:17
  Speaker 2: Have Evan leave with a positive taste in his mouth
• 6:20
  Speaker 2: and something really good that you know, now hopefully he
• 6:22
  Speaker 2: can build on that we're going to need. We've been
• 6:24
  Speaker 2: looking for guys out of that bullpen to help and
• 6:27
  Speaker 2: now Evan is one of those guys that can help us.
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: Very good. Well, we will see you. Dibbs is coming
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: to do his show on the twelfth before Northeastern, and
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: then we'll be here for two of the final three
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: with the Villanova, So good luck next weekend, good all right,
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: Thanks Bob, appreciated, Jim, Thank you, sir,