13 Quotes by Bob Kalp

What makes it frustrating is that, we're the type of program that practices every day and we practice situations every day. Mentally, a couple kids did not execute properly, home plate was left uncovered and, hey, give their runner credit, she never stopped.

We're going to have games bunched together at the end of the season and I would have liked to have had a couple of those games scheduled for this week.

Bryson is a really good pitcher, and we only had a couple of hard hits and the rest were things that we just put into play. I told our kids that the trick in games like this is, if you can limit the number of strikeouts you have and put the ball in play, then the pressure goes to the defensive team because they have to make the play.

I think the mystique of knowing they're good enough to do it has been removed, but they know it can happen. It just remains a case where you've got to have a few breaks and you've got to play well.

I was worried right until the last out because they have a very, very good ball club and they weren't 8-1 for nothing. We have a pretty decent ball club. Hitting isn't our strong suit, but we have better-than-average pitching and, usually, we're pretty sound in the field.

Those are the two kids that we're really building things around, and we hope some of the kids from last year who are regulars who hit under .200 can swing it around. We've got to have somebody step up and do some hitting.

We didn't play well in the field, and we're not going to be able to beat the teams we think we can beat making (those kinds) of errors. I know that, and they know that.

We're very optimistic, but last year is last year. This was a big step playing a quality team -- and Peters has a quality team. We didn't hit as well as we would have liked, but we made the plays in the field.

Every game for us is going to be a challenge. We can drop a game to every team. We're not going to score a ton of runs. We got to play if we're going to win.