It’ll give us an idea of where we are. I expect them to be very strong, so we’ll have a chance to test ourselves against one of the best.

We didn’t have to rely on one big hit. I tell the team all the time, ‘You can score runs with the short game.’ It helps bring the other parts of our game along.

We have to start laying off some pitches. We were swinging at pitches that were way out of the strike zone. We can’t strike out 13 times and expect to win. We need to be...

I just can’t explain why we can’t hit the ball. We work on hitting every day. We will continue to work at it until we figure it out. I hope we will can figure things...

In four years, I’ve never seen us play this well. Everything we work on in practice seems to work with this group. It’s exciting to see it happen.