16 Quotes by Joey Estrella

If we don't score it doesn't matter how much they score. We're not generating and putting any pressure on their defense. If we can't do that, we can't be successful.

I feel very confident that we have people that can come in and fill in. I don't have any problem with the whole situation. I think we'll be as competitive as we can be and I look forward to a good series. Good teams make adjustments and we're going to find out this weekend if we're that kind of team that can make adjustments irrespective of some of the things that we have to do.

From the beginning, this team's had a lot of character, a lot of spunk. If we're down, we're going to come back. The momentum had changed toward Temple by then, but we turned it around, so I'm proud of these guys.

He's always been a guy that we could count on to give us a lot of innings. Shaky first inning, but he settled down and really did a good job. He's a smart kid, quality pitcher, and once you weather what he did in the first inning, it gave him a lot of confidence.

That was big time. In that situation, I would have been happy to escape with two runs scored. That play held them to one and more importantly, it kept the momentum on our side.

We finally started swinging the bat the way we're capable of doing. It feels good that we started putting some pressure on the defense. That's all we can do. Hopefully, we'll continue to swing the bat.

When you're in trouble and need to get those double plays to get out of it. You know that the team you're playing is swinging the bat pretty well.

We're very pleased with our pitching. It's just that we had opportunities to score runs and didn't do the kind of job that we can normally do.

We got the hits when we needed them and that certainly was an improvement over (Saturday). I think we were a little more patient and a little more selective at the plate looking for our pitches.