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Jim Penders Postgame w Bob - May 11 v Creighton · Coaches Corner

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  New Penders has joined us here in our big y broadcast foods after the ten
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  to five went over Creighton and when you can get the production as we were
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  just talking from not only the bottom two guys in the order, but then
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  Studeley comes up and helps you out. I mean, geeze, six hits
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  from your eight and nine hitters today, that's pretty good. Yeah, I
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  think it was actually seven or seven seven. Studley right, You're right.
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  Garboski's been swinging the bat really well all year. He doesn't try to do
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  too much, he takes his singles really have enjoyed watching him develop, and
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  he's had a nice year behind the plate too. But Minnick, you know,
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  we we thought the world of I mean, I think Tyler hitting the
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  five hole to start our season off, I mean we thought this guy's just
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  going to be a plug and play, had an awesome fall, a great
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  preseason. Coach Mack who's calling games against him in the preseason, couldn't get
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  him out. I mean, he might have been our hottest hitter in the
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  preseason. Him and Tamarrow were just awesome. And then the season hit and
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  he just didn't look like himself, and it's like it's a big adjustment when
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  you're eighteen years old and you're facing twenty three and twenty four and sometimes twenty
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  five year olds. It's just, you know, you're not going to see
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  that until you make the big leagues. You don't see that in a ball.
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  You don't see that in double A. You know, it's very odd
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  and that age gap, and you could see kind of it's sped up on
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  him a little bit and he's finally looked more like himself the last shoot.
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  I mean, really since conference play, if you look at the conference numbers
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  only, our eight nine hitters are our best hitters if you look at conference
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  only. So both those guys have figured it out and I'm really happy with
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  them. And yeah, you know, if Tamarow is going to go for
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  five, you need production from somewhere else. Tomorrow doesn't have too many oh
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  for fives, But we got a lot of production throughout the lineup today and
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  very you know, good solid win. Is it simplistic to stay in minix
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  case? Just confidence now, I mean he's had a heck of a week.
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  Yeah, he just he's got a different swagger. I mean, you've
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  seen the beginning of the season to now and just the way he's getting the
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  box. You know, he's enjoying here in his walk up song. He's
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  not in a rush to turn the lights out. You know. Those guys
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  get up there and they see that batting average on the big JumboTron and it
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  becomes the humble tron when it's you know, under two hundred. And I
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  think he was in a rush to get at bats over with. I'm saying
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  that somewhat facetiously, but there is something to the subconscious on that. It's
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  like, oh my god, am I really a one sixty six hitter?
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  Am I really one you know, forty five hitter or whatever? And he's
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  not. He just needed to, you know, he needed to have a
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  little bit of success and and he's built on that. So very happy.
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  He's going to be a very good player for us. He can really play
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  defense too. We even toy it around with the idea of putting him at
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  third base today just to get Luke off his feet, but one of those
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  things you don't want to mess with it, so we just kept it the
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  same. But he's been he's been excellent. Four for four from your nine
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  hitter, and you know, we were joking around that he was the designated
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  swimmer for a little bit. Now he's the designated hitter right now. Yeah,
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  Stephen quickly gives you another good effort. I mean he battled today,
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  going to almost six innings, giving up nine hits, scattering five runs,
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  but he struck out eight and point whatever play he made back of the mind
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  there with the left hand, as Adam referred to it as a little game
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  of BOXI ball. He did that. I was like, what is he
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  doing? But he had worked. He kind of got tangled up, and
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  I guess, you know, he found a way to make it. He's
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  a very good athlete. You know, he's a guy who was a high
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  school shortstop and and still feels his position like a high school shortstop. So
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  no, he was scuffling, you know, early he could not land his
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  slider in the first two innings for anything. And then he finally found it
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  and he needs that. You know, it's a it's a plus pitch.
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  H through a couple of good change ups today too, but the fastball is
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  getting on some of them too. When we started to find the spin,
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  I thought he had a pretty good mix going and therefore, you know,
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  you get the eight strikeouts. But those two left. He's got some really
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  good swings off of them. And and you know, I'm sure we're going
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  to see them tomorrow. And and Gillan and uh Hess, you know,
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  they had they had some big days. They weren't missing much. So but
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  I thought, yeah, he scattered just enough and it was you know,
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  I really didn't I liked one pitch Corea through I think that was the first
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  pitch he threw, and then it just did not look good out of the
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  hand. I know he got the result we wanted, but it was time
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  to switch it up. And then Ellison, you know, Ellison's kind of
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  worked his way back into it. Wanted to get him back out on the
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  mound. Sonella did a solid job, you know, the bullpen held held
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  drew and and uh you know Quinn. Quinn's been great and he needed a
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  good outing too. His last two I'm sure he wasn't happy with and he
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  needed a good one and that was important to get today and he get heat
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  cooked tomorrow on Senior Day. Yeah, you know, he he's got great
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  stuff. You look at the Biggie strikeout numbers. You know, I'm hopeful
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  that he's gonna be able to continue to give us what he's given us.
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  You know, the last several times out he's been he's been excellent. His
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  stuff's been electric. And you know, he's the type of guy that he
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  really he can be his own worst enemy. He's the only guy of all
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  the guys we've had on our staff in the recent past. You know,
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  I've told him this, you know, to his face, he's the only
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  one who can beat him. I mean, really, his stuff is that
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  good, and when he's confident and things are clicking, he's really tough to
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  beat. So hopefully we have that version and we've seen that version of you
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  and cook now for weeks. We just needed to be that guy again one
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  last time at Elliott Ballpark in front of our fans and hope to celebrate a
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  happy Mother's Day for all the moms in attendance, and hopefully we'll have a
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  good crowd. And boy, this place continues to be a good place for
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  you. Another another really really good year. What's you now? Sixteen and
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  out of twenty home wins, Yeah this season. And the crowd really good
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  crowd again today and not perfect weather, but they still come out and great
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  seeing the berm filled up with all the kids now they're running the bases down
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  there. It's it's it's it's what we envision when we built the place,
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  and and I think, you know, it's brightest days are still out of
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  it, but it's I think word of mouth is just going to help.
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  I think people enjoy coming out here, and it's such a beautiful setting,
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  especially now the leaves are it's it's a shame that we're you know, we
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  got one more home game and the leaves are finally full on the trees and
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  it's beautiful. I mean, it's just it's absolutely breathtaking. And I don't
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  I can't imagine ever getting sick of it. I pinch myself every day that
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  I get to this is this is my office. All right, get one
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  more win here and then it's off, what two weeks on the road.
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  Huh, that's right, Yeah, we've got to get got to get one
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  more and then I just want to play well. You know, we play
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  well, We've we've had we tended to get good results. We don't play
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  well, we haven't had them, and so I want to play well tomorrows.
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  Crighton's certainly not going to roll over. They get a lot of grad
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  students on that team. A lot of guys play in their last couple of
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  weeks of college baseball, and they certainly didn't roll over today. They're going
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  to come out fighting, and we have to be ready. It doesn't matter
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  that they're mathematically eliminated from the tournament any of that stuff. They're going to
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  come and ready to fight, and we got to have that. We got
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  to match that intensity, that's for sure, all right, Jim, thank
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  you as always, good luck tomorrow and good luck the rest of the year.
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  Appreciate it, all right,