It was just a bad night. It is tough to win when you give up a 10-run inning. The kids kept competing. We could not answer the big inning. They answered every time we tried...

(In the first game) we played really well. It was a sound defensive game where we turned a couple of double plays, but I thought the story of the day was Craig Rodriguez. It was...

We’re back in the race. We knew it was a 30-game season, but when you play two weekends as poorly as we had played, it’s hard to believe that. That’s what losing does for you....

All the games count the same. It’s a marathon.

It was disappointing because I thought it would be a good night with the way we started the night. To start off like we did and not be able to put them away is disappointing.

The reason he got moved to the Friday role is that he gives us the best opportunity to win the game of anybody we’ve got. He deserves to pitch on Friday.

We kept answering (at the plate). We kept controlling the game. Every time they would score we would score. We kept extending the lead and made it more and more difficult for them.

It is not often you play two straight games and allow no runs. Lance pitched great today. He was very impressive considering it was his first collegiate start. He pitched with a lot of confidence.

We were very inconsistent tonight. We just didn’t play well. It is frustrating, because we play well one night and not the next day. It was a bad game on the mound and that has...

We got their pitcher on the ropes early, but we didn’t capitalize and let him get back on a roll after the first couple of innings.

I’m not disappointed in the loss, but in the way we lost. We just didn’t pitch or field all night.

Crawford got ahead of hitters and made clutch pitches. He didn’t walk that many, and we weren’t able to get the timely hit like we did in the first game.

Eighteen innings, to get eight hits. You’re not going to win a lot of games.

Baseball is so much about confidence. How you feel about your swing, your pitching. I don’t think it’s a false confidence. We know we have to play well to win. We didn’t play well in...

We’ve been swinging the bats well for five or six games. But a good pitcher sometimes can stop that. Crawford was able to get ahead of the hitters and make the clutch pitch.

Everybody they run out there is good.

Cisco was terrific tonight. His command was brilliant.

There’s no doubt Tommy has to pitch for us in some capacity. We’ve got to figure out what that’s going to be.

That really came at the right time for us. We just haven’t played real good baseball, and it’s tough with a young club when you have adversity early.

You’ve got to believe that you’re a good club. It wasn’t easy. There’s some games that were tough. But they’ve hung in there and hopefully we can keep it going.

Obviously we addressed some needs after the losses we had from last year’s team. To have the eighth-ranked class in the nation shows the work that Dan McDonnell has done to keep us in a...

It wasn’t the best game of baseball that we have played, but we played with energy and were able to get the win. Maine deserves a lot of credit for the way they played. They...

Not a lot of good has happened to us. And tonight, with their big grand slam, we showed a lot bouncing back.

I think, that happens a lot in our game. Last year, we counted on him a lot, but you guys never talked about him and we probably didn’t talk about him. We talked about Stephen...

That isn’t something that just coach Polk and me decide.

We’re excited about having everyone back on campus. There were no surprises for us. Everyone reported and showed up on time. We’re excited about the prospects as we get to work today to start following...

Lance pitched great. He was very impressive considering it was his first collegiate start. He pitched with a lot of confidence.

You’ve got to try to stay positive now and believe that things are going to turn around. The negative is that we’re (14-11) and 1-5 in the league. But it’s only two weekends.

He only threw 47 pitches (Friday) and we just wanted to get him out there one inning and maybe two if it went real easy for him. We wanted him to pitch. Sometimes it doesn’t...

This isn’t all about the money, anyway. It’s what’s in the best interest of the game.

Right now, sugar is not so sweet. Everybody’s raised their prices.

He’s a guy who got off to a slow start, but if we’re going to make any kind of run, we’re going to need him. The last few weeks he’s really been playing well.

At some point, we’ve got to stop it and turn it around and go in the other direction. Hopefully that time is coming.

A sweep is a just a big blow. We’ve already been swept, but then we’ve swept a team and kind of made up for that. To lose three, it’s amazing how much more ground you...

If you’re not playing well, it doesn’t matter if you have experience or if you’re playing at home or what you’re doing. They’re all storylines that reporters want to touch on … but I think...

I think if we could have kept the game close, we’d have had a shot because we were having good at-bats. We thought we’d be a little farther along. The good news is there are...

We wanted to get him back out there and get his feet wet again. Sometimes it doesn’t work out the way you want.

This game was a total reversal of yesterday’s game. We put pressure on them offensively and we were able to deliver the knock out blow. We hit the ball great and pitched great.

That happens sometimes, and there’s no real reason for it. This was more like us.

Cisco was terrific tonight. Craig almost matched him pitch-for-pitch. But Crisp hits the homer. Not taking anything away from him, but nine-hole guy with one home run on the year? We’re one pitch away.

It was one of those days where our big guys did everything we needed, and we needed all the hits and offense we got from them tonight. We needed every bit of offense we could...

You’ve got to give them a lot of credit, being down 3-1 with only six outs remaining and they’re at the bottom of their lineup. It’s a tough one to swallow, but the bottom line...

It was a solid performance, similar to the way we played the first three games.

Will’s got electric stuff. He’s had a good year, but like most of our pitchers, it’s been up-and-down. Tonight, he was lights out. He was ahead in the count, very composed out there.

We competed hard today, but UCLA just played better than we did. We got their pitcher on the ropes early, but we didn’t capitalize and let him get back on a roll after the first...

It was really a big momentum shift. Even though it just ties it up, it’s a game-winner.