Louisville Baseball Postgame Quotes
June 04, 2012 | Baseball
June 4, 2012
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Louisville Head Coach Dan McDonnell
"Baseball is a crazy game. There are no guarantees. Cal State Fullerton looked like they were going to win the whole thing a few years ago in a super regional and they were two-and-out (in Omaha). Arizona is the best team we have played all year. We have played some SEC schools, we played Pepperdine, we played some Big 10 schools, but that's definitely the best team we've played all year."
"It's different, there's no doubt. It plays hard and fast, but it gave our outfielders just as many fits as our infielders. But we have to be able to overcome that. Having played in Rosenblatt, having coached in Rosenblatt, that's a hard field too. But we have to be able to play on all different surfaces, if anything our team will learn from that and we will be better off in the future."
Louisville Senior OF Stewart Ijames
"It is kind of hard to keep your mind set on each pitch when you're losing as much as we were. It's kind of hard when you're thinking, `man, this is the last game, this is the last time I'm going out there.' Obviously, there were a lot of hits we could have prevented--lots of them were our mistakes, but it's kind of tough when you're feeling the heat of everything else that is going on."
Louisville Senior RHP Derek Self
"The reason I came back was to have a better year than we did last year as a team. Overall, this team that we had was a special team. Yeah, I was hoping we would go further and I thought we had the talent to go further. I'm not satisfied with it, but I feel like we did a lot of great things with this team and I was very happy that I came back. It was a fun year."
Arizona Head Coach Andy Lopez
"I want to congratulate Missouri, New Mexico State and Louisville for making a regional. It's not an easy task these days. Obviously, I'm proud of my guys. It's fun to see the things you teach on a daily basis shine through in the postseason. James Farris did a great job for us. You can really see the growth from his freshman to sophomore years."
"Yeah, maybe (we're playing the best baseball of the season right now). I would sound like an idiot if I said no, right? 40 or 50 runs in three games in the postseason. But we did some things this weekend that I'm not too happy with, but that's just who I am. But we're playing good baseball right now."
Arizona Left Fielder Johnny Field
"Every time I go up, I check where the third baseman is playing. I looked (in the fifth inning) and he was playing back so I just laid it down."
"In my first at-bat, he struck me out on, I think, four sliders, so in my next at-bat I decided to wait slider. He threw me a fastball right down the middle and I probably looked pretty stupid taking it. Then he threw me a slider."
Arizona Pitcher James Farris
"(My outing after struggling against ASU last week) was definitely relieving. Anytime I go out and try to minimize the walks and hit-by-pitches, I'm going to have a good game. The defense played well, too. Without them throwing guys out at third base this could have been different."
Arizona Catcher Riley Moore
"A lot of (the starters pitching nearly every inning in the regional) was confidence for them. I just tried to work them down in the zone and have them throw low strikes, which they all did effectively."
