8 Quotes by John Crumbley

He's been a great addition. This is something he enjoys, and he communicates well with the kids. He certainly commands their attention when he talks.

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Our bullpen let us down a little bit, but we fought back and scored some runs.

My thought process going in, I told the umpire, I told all my coaches, we're going inside until we can't any more and that was our philosophy and I think it took a little bit of their aggressive swings away.

Most of our wins have been by larger margins, so it was good to be in a close game. We know the tradition that Key West has and they played hard.

The good, solid fundamental baseball was not there. And we have six more games to fix it.

Sam has thrown four outstanding games in a row, and when we can put some offense up early, it's always going to help a good high school pitcher to stay calm and go after them.

I'm not a big squeeze guy; never have been in 22 years. But we'd been leaving some guys on and weren't getting good swings. We just gambled and it worked.