Rob Vaughn Opening Statement 2/20/24

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00:00 >> Game goes man, I think obviously there's no secret,

00:02 they kind of gave us some fits offensively a little bit.

00:04 Just I mean the start came in and had a really good change up going man,

00:08 like really good change up, really good break ball.

00:10 I think he threw five or six heaters, the whole outing.

00:14 And I think you saw us as hitters kind of get in between a little bit and

00:18 instead of having maybe a concrete plan of what we were trying to do,

00:20 kind of let it affect us and we tried to hit everything.

00:25 The beauty is we pitched the ball at an extremely high level and

00:27 played really good defense.

00:28 I thought Greg Froh was great, Zane Crows competed his tail off for us.

00:33 And then Austin Morris was great and then Brandon Myers came in and

00:35 was outstanding.

00:36 So when you throw the ball like that, it gives your offense a chance when you're

00:41 trying to find your way a little bit, gives you some time.

00:43 So I thought that was outstanding.

00:44 Obviously TJ takes a really big swing on a change up early and

00:48 runs it out of the yard and it was in general just a great day.

00:51 I mean, the homer was awesome late, but

00:53 I thought the hustle triple there early in the game was huge.

00:57 Cuz he's just able to extend the lead, TJ obviously turns around and

01:00 drives him in.

01:01 But some little stuff that you guys don't see, it's an older player here, man.

01:05 This guy knows the game and is just doing some stuff in the infield that if you're

01:10 not a coach, you're probably not paying attention to.

01:12 But just flipping coverages, just doing some different things that

01:16 really showcases the maturity in the player.

01:17 He is and has continued to grow and to be.

01:20 So again, not the game that you go out and score 15 and

01:25 go bully somebody off the field.

01:26 But I thought it was a really competitive game.

01:28 I thought they threw the ball extremely well.

01:30 We matched it, played great defense.

01:32 And that's really the story of the game.

01:33 I mean, they had two errors and we were clean.

01:34 And I think their errors turned into some stuff and

01:37 we were able to kind of minimize there.

01:38 So obviously we'll take a win, need to keep growing, need to keep getting better.

01:42 But that's early season baseball, we're gonna keep growing from it.

01:45 But always good to end up on the right side of it.