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UConn BSB Coach Jim Penders Postgame - G'Town · Coaches Corner

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  Ohio, Myke, Crispiano, Adam Giardino joined by Jim Penderson. What was
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  a strange eighth inning. But let's let's get We'll get that at a side.
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  Let's talk about Garrett Co five and a third longest stint of the year.
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  Uh, he got you up to a pretty good start, and I
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  know you were hoping for that and you got that. Yeah, it really
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  doesn't take I did zero managing and putting him, you know in that spot
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  today, there was it was an obvious choice. I mean, and people
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  from the outside might be, oh my god, Co's going game one.
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  If you pulled our if you took a secret poll of everybody associated on the
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  inside of our you know, with our program inside out, they all would
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  have said Garritko, Garritko, Garricko, you know, and twice on Sunday.
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  Because he's got guts, he's got courage, he's not going to be
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  afraid. He loves the big momentum. Even when he's struggling. He's able
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  to separate pitches. You know, one pitch doesn't have anything to do with
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  the next pitch. He's got great self talk, great self evaluation abilities,
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  and he's a leader. You know, so very happy for him. He
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  did a super job. You know, Zach Fogel gets the game ball because
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  he got the win, but Garrett was just as important, if not more.
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  When you when the team is down. We've talked about the countless comeback
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  victories so far this season. Were you seeing it in the guys that okay,
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  this is going to happen even though we're down to run late. Yeah,
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  there's no there's no panic. I mean, there's zero I called there's
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  no real anxiety because it's just so common, um, you know, and
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  it's you know, you kind of you come to expect it. It's like,
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  all right, here we go. Smitty leads off with a clean single
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  and you know, I mean then we have great base running from him because
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  on that ball that Dom has the excuse me single on that was not a
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  hit run, you know, he just he got fooled on a pitch.
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  He got enough barrel on it to kind of create some confusion. Thank goodness,
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  Smithy was running. Otherwise it's an easy out. But what smith does
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  there is he just keeps running because if the second baseman catches the ball,
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  he's out by ninety feet anyway, So just keep coming and because of that,
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  he ran so hard. I'm able to send him with nobody out,
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  and I got to be sure I could score him with nobody out. But
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  it was an easy send in retrospect because he's so fast and he was running
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  hard. So yeah, we did get a little luck in the eighth,
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  but we got no luck early. I mean, we're hitting some balls on
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  the screws. So it's interesting how the baseball gods sometimes have it all even
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  out, and sometimes it doesn't happen in the span of one baseball game,
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  but it did today, thankfully. Yeah, Brian Padia could attest to that.
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  Yeah, he had two bullets and he made four outs right right.
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  Yeah, and you know he didn't execute a bond, not one, you
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  know, with the other two. It's like he hit hits one on the
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  screws to right center. He hits a shot at the third baseman early,
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  we get a run on it, but double play ball and the momentum goes
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  back and the other dugout. But yeah, you're right. I mean some
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  balls were hit really really well. I liked our swings earlier. I think,
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  you know, some opposite field singles from mac Garbowski from David Smith you
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  know, we had some nice defense to Don Freeburger in the first inning with
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  that dive and a bounce past the second and couldn't get to his feet.
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  And then Jake Studley in the ninth. I mean, that's a heck of
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  a catch. He didn't see it off the bat, he makes a great
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  adjustment, goes back on it, and that kid's Capualati's a really good hitter
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  and he got all of it. And Jake, thankfully we're in no double
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  so he's deep. But it made a heck of a catch and grab him.
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  Now. One thing that Mike and I were discussing during the broadcast,
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  and you got an explanation, at least at some point from the umpires,
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  what distinguished the difference between getting that call at second for an automatic ball and
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  not getting the automatic ball. You're right, I did get an explanation,
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  but Adam, you would have a better You would have a better idea,
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  because he confused me even more. I have no idea what the rule is
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  now. We've been playing that way for fifty something games now, and you
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  know he called two of them, yeah, and I one for each of
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  us. I mean it made I thought it made a difference on ours a
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  two and oh count versus one ozho, just give us the reset, don't
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  don't call a ball. I mean, I guess in the spirit in the
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  in the rule, that's that's the actual rule. I said, So are
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  we better off throwing it in the dirt, you know like their guy did?
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  Yeah, because I didn't know what differentiated it, and um, he
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  was I don't know, he was pretty nervous. Yeah. I did not
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  feel like I got a great explanation. So you'd have a better chance to
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  just say so, if you are going to throw to second base, it's
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  a good a runner to go back. What do you have to do?
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  Do you have to throw with force? And if you just lob it back,
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  there you go. Today we got called today a ball was called against
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  us the first time all year. So I don't know, I've got to
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  um gotta go back. I don't know the game well enough. I guess
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  you haven't been around long enough. You know, the inside move is if
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  you've played the game, the inside move at second base is such that you're
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  not going to pick a guy off like that, You're he's going to pick
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  himself off. So if the runner goes on leg lift. That's when you're
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  gonna have a pickoff at him. In the absence of that, we've been
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  told, hey, just throw it a second and make it look like a
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  pickoff attempt to get around the rule. So we've done that all year and
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  nobody's called it. Today they decided, I guess there's there could be a
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  supervisor in the stands or more cameras. I don't know, but it made
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  it. But that has to be clarified, don't you think before you're playing
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  more games and you can't write, you can't not know, and then the
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  game starts, and then suddenly balls are getting called and guys getting hind encounts
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  two and all. I'm not saying that that's why Garrett gave up a home
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  running a Rex bitch, but that's got to be disconcerting, right. It
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  didn't help. It didn't help, you know, And when I got the
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  explanation again, it made no sense to me. So okay, all right,
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  thanks, are you coming to the game tonight? What are you doing
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  tonight? We actually think we've done it both ways. We've come and sat
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  behind the the plate and we've actually found that we get better info from the
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  center field camera. So we're probably gonna maybe we'll listen to you guys and
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  watch it watching in the stream. I wouldn't suggest not doing that. It's
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  weird. It's it's easier to it's easier to take no, and we kind
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  of compare notes on them, and um, there's no distractions, there's nobody
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  coming to talk to you, and you can have as many diet cokes as
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  you want. You don't have to worry about anybody's in the stand saying that's
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  too many diet cokes. Go yeah, that's right, all right, Jim.
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  We appreciate it. A good win. Thank you. Every win's a
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  good win.