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Jim Penders - ETSU May 2 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Tough day today, but boy, this team can mash. This
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  Speaker 1: is a good hitting team. You saw it today and
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  Speaker 1: they got all three things today, hitting, pitching, and their
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  Speaker 1: defense was really good today that we don't talk about
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  Speaker 1: enough for a lot of teams, but their defense, and
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  Speaker 1: they made some good plays today.
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  Speaker 2: They made excellent plays. They I'll played us, I'll coach
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  Speaker 2: us in every way, two days in a row. They're
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  Speaker 2: a really good ball club. I think they're the best
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  Speaker 2: team that we've played since Boston College and uh BC's
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  Speaker 2: having a hell of a year. But they they've got
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  Speaker 2: they've got to going. Their shortstop plays with tremendous confidence
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  Speaker 2: and ability. Yeah, they got a catcher, I know a
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  Speaker 2: couple of them got by him. I think he's a
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  Speaker 2: freshman catcher with zero pass balls on the year. That's
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  Speaker 2: that's I'm envious they've got. And they have a kid.
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  Speaker 2: You know, their first baseman can flat out rake Paul
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  Speaker 2: Meci's unbelievable. You can't get the Connecticut kid out takes
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  Speaker 2: his singles and doesn't try to do too much, make
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  Speaker 2: some great plays in the in the outfield they bring in,
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  Speaker 2: you know, guy doesn't play every day in little and
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  Speaker 2: makes a great play on Maddox's on Delana's ball in
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  Speaker 2: left field. Every ball that we didn't hit a ton
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  Speaker 2: of balls hard, certainly not nearly enough. But the ones
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  Speaker 2: that we did hit, uh, they made play they made
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  Speaker 2: plays on. So you got to tip your cap to
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  Speaker 2: East Tennessee State. They're the better ball club right now,
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  Speaker 2: and we got an opportunity. We haven't been swept in
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  Speaker 2: this ballpark yet. I don't plan on starting tomorrow, and
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  Speaker 2: I know the guys don't either. We got to bounce
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  Speaker 2: back at an early start and got to find a
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  Speaker 2: way to salvage it tomorrow against a really good ball club.
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  Speaker 1: What did Tat and Bell do well against your team today?
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  Speaker 1: From what you saw on the hill.
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  Speaker 2: I just you know, he he mixed. He mixed really well.
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  Speaker 2: He's tougher on righty's than he is on lefties. That's
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  Speaker 2: why he saw an extra lefty or two in the lineup.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't want to go with Toronto two days in
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  Speaker 2: a row, but I thought he did a you know,
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  Speaker 2: I thought he did a really good job of just
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  Speaker 2: keeping us off balance. We were just in between all day,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just kind of either just out in front
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  Speaker 2: or just behind, and he did a super job of
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  Speaker 2: mixing his pitches. He came, he pitched inside. I thought
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  Speaker 2: he did that really well too. Just really, we were
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  Speaker 2: not comfortable at the plate obviously, you know, the entire day,
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  Speaker 2: and when we did have opportunities, they they didn't have
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  Speaker 2: a ton of opportunities, but when they had them, they
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  Speaker 2: made the most of them. And when we had the
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  Speaker 2: few opportunities that we had, you know, we didn't drive
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  Speaker 2: in a run today, you know, the only run scores
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  Speaker 2: as a result of a ball getting to the backstop
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  Speaker 2: for us, and you know, it's it's fun, you know,
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  Speaker 2: offensive fleeting. We had a great offensive weekend last weekend
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  Speaker 2: at Georgetown and and you know, especially in the first
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  Speaker 2: two games, and since then it's been a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a scuffle. The last the final game at Georgetown.
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  Speaker 2: At Rutgers, we didn't exactly tear the cover off the ball,
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  Speaker 2: but we were fortunate to get a win. And these
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  Speaker 2: two the last two days here, they've they've been really,
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  Speaker 2: really good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Kaitan Suki thought pitched pretty well today. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: scattered three runs on seven it's over seven innings, struck
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  Speaker 1: out seven. I mean, you can't ask much more from
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  Speaker 1: your starting pitcher.
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  Speaker 2: He fights. We just don't have enough fight in our lineup.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we don't fight back when we get hit
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  Speaker 2: in the mouth. We don't come back on teams. It's
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  Speaker 2: it's been a common theme, uh since the get go,
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  Speaker 2: you know, since the beginning of the year. We can
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  Speaker 2: bully you. If we we get ahead, we're gonna we
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  Speaker 2: can tack on. But if we get a little bit behind,
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  Speaker 2: it's boy, we squeeze the bats and we do not
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  Speaker 2: fight back. It's uh, it's discouraging to see. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there's no other word for it. It's been very, very frustrating,
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  Speaker 2: uh to see all year, you know, just offensively, how
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  Speaker 2: how the bats just seem to get worse. We pressed more,
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  Speaker 2: and especially at home. We've played some terrible baseball at
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  Speaker 2: home in front of a great crowd today. And I
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  Speaker 2: thank all the people for coming out. If there's any
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  Speaker 2: silver lining, we get him a happy hour and that
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  Speaker 2: it was a tidy, quick Well it wasn't tidy, but
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  Speaker 2: it was.
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  Speaker 1: A quick game as opposed to yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I can get out of here early. Yeah, yesterday it
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  Speaker 2: was torturous.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we'll leave you be from there. I
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  Speaker 1: know you got your lefty the professor going tomorrow. I imagine
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  Speaker 1: you feel like he's in a good he's pitched well,
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  Speaker 1: and he's battled like like the Dickens. From your chat
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  Speaker 1: with Jonesy after the Georgetown game last Sunday, it sounds
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  Speaker 1: like he really battled through those middle innings to get
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  Speaker 1: to the sixth and seventh.
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  Speaker 2: Then, yeah, he did. He's a competitor and he may
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  Speaker 2: look like an accountant out there, but he pitches like
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  Speaker 2: a warrior. And and you know, we trust him. He's
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  Speaker 2: a he's a husky through and through and in the
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  Speaker 2: best sense of the word. And our you know, our
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  Speaker 2: starting pitching has been sensational. But and you're seeing, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Paxston's getting knocked around a little bit. We've been relying
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  Speaker 2: on the same three guys. We keep looking for other
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  Speaker 2: guys to emerge, and you're kind of seeing the byproduct
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  Speaker 2: of us leaning heavily on the same, you know, three
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  Speaker 2: guys out of the bullpen, and they can't be there
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  Speaker 2: every day for you. And you know, I thought his
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  Speaker 2: stuff looked okay, but obviously they were seeing him just fine.
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  Speaker 2: And he's given up some barrels the last two times out.
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  Speaker 2: So we got to get him back, but been very
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  Speaker 2: pleased with the starting pitching. Just very disappointed in our
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  Speaker 2: offense overall, and and our ability. Our comeback ability is
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  Speaker 2: almost non existent, and that's something that our teams have
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  Speaker 2: always been known to do, especially at Elliott Ballpark. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's just a whole, a whole lot of
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  Speaker 2: I have this card in front of me, and this
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  Speaker 2: is the most there's nothing positive, nothing really, you know,
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  Speaker 2: nothing glaringly negative other than the bats. But I don't
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  Speaker 2: think I've had a card that has fewer notes on it.
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  Speaker 2: So in my tenure here, it was just Suki did
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  Speaker 2: his part and that was about it, all right. So
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  Speaker 2: we got to bounce back tomorrow, and you got to
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  Speaker 2: wash it off quickly and uh and get to work
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  Speaker 2: and find a way to salvage. And we did that
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  Speaker 2: against Saint John's. We had two really tough games with
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  Speaker 2: them and then found a way to come back out
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  Speaker 2: and went on Sunday. And that's that's a plan tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: all
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  Speaker 1: Right, Get a good night's sleep, all right, Thanks tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Jim,