University of Minnesota Athletics
University of Minnesota
Binghamton
Postgame Quotes: vs. Binghamton
6/4/2016 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Head Coach John Anderson
Opening Statement…
"First of all, I want to congratulate Binghamton on an outstanding season. They have an outstanding team and they're well coached. They play the game the right way and they play hard. They have nothing to hang their heads about. I thought they played two outstanding games and they end up 0-2 in the tournament so I just want to congratulate them first and foremost. Second of all, it was a long day obviously, the rain delays and all the stuff that happened both during the game and before. I thought our kids found a way to stay focused for nine innings and we had a bad inning in there after we finally spent a long time since we had a big inning. I think we finally were able to get a big inning when we put consecutive at bats together and then we went out there and gave the momentum right back to them but obviously Toby Hanson just started out the game attacking the strike zone and then he went out there after we got our five put on the board there. In the fifth, I just thought he lost his aggressiveness, he didn't attack the zone, walked two people and big innings come from walk, hits and errors and that's what that inning was about but Ty [McDevitt] warmed up and then we got the lightning and we debated about what to do there and decided to go in the bullpen. He said he felt good so he just went out there and did a fantastic job of just filling up the strike zone with strikes and I thought we made some outstanding plays behind them. I thought our team today looked more like it did for a lot of the season this year. I think we got our swagger back a little bit on offense so hopefully this will keep us going in this tournament."
Senior pitcher Ty McDevitt
On rain delay and his confidence level…
"Well first of all I think the grounds crew did a phenomenal job of getting the field ready and making sure that the time that I had to sit was quite limited. I'm pretty sure that if I would've had to sit another hour or so, especially when you get the amount of rain that we got, I'm pretty sure things would've have went a little bit different so great job to them. In regards to getting the first out, yeah it helps you get your confidence back. It's a one pitch out and then most of all, it gets the momentum going back to you. It's definitely a tough thing to come out after the big inning that we had and give up five runs but being able to get the guys swinging as quick as possible is best in that situation. We went back and put two up there and gave ourselves a little bit of breathing room. More for momentum than anything, it's definitely helpful."
Junior outfielder Jordan Smith
On his game…
"Right now, I'm just I'm seeing the ball a little better than I was at the end of the year. For me, confidence is a big thing. Stepping in the box with confidence helps me a lot. I get in trouble when I don't have confidence up there so just tracking the ball and seeing the ball well helps me a lot."
On his two home runs in tournament…
"Texas is nice. I had one all year so I mean two these last two games might be a little shocker who knows."
