University of North Carolina Athletics
North Carolina-Florida Postgame Quotes
June 4, 2005 | Baseball
June 4, 2005
Game 4 Quotes
Florida Head Coach Pat McMahon
Opening
Statement:
"What an outstanding baseball game and what an outstanding
pitcher's duel. It was a great defensive battle and just one heck of a game
today."
On Jeff
Corsaletti's fake bunt:
"I thought that it was a very big play. Jeff works very hard
to make things happen when you can move the defense and create holes. We called
an offensive timeout and he said that he wanted to do it. It's a really neat
little phase of the game when a young man wants to do something and he is able
to execute it"
On pitcher
Tommy Boss' complete-game:
"Tommy just pitched his heart out. He is a great competitor
and our team loves to see him on the mound. He is a pleasure to watch perform
and just an outstanding human being."
Florida
On pitching against
"Andrew Miller is a great pitcher. He pitched his heart out.
I try not to get caught up in the hype and try to pitch my game and it turned
out well."
On how today's complete
game compares to his complete game against UCLA in the 2004 Regionals:
"It's pretty close. I threw great last year and today I
really had all four pitches working for me."
Florida
On the
"We knew that we had to put runs up today. We were able to
do that and things took care of themselves."
On his third at-bat of the
game:
"Andrew Miller is very good and we knew that coming into the
game. We heard that he has a tendency to walk people early and we tried to
battle counts early, but when he didn't do that, we had to change our approach.
I just looked fastball and I was able to be successful."
North Carolina Head Coach Mike Fox
Opening Statement:
"First of
all, my hat is off to the
On if he expected Saturday's game to
be a pitching duel:
"[Tommy
oss] carved us up, he just carved us up."
"We were
hoping it was going to be a pitchers duel.
With our guy out there certainly, but we were obviously up."
On the amount of pitchers he has
available for Sunday:
"We're
going to need them all, probably. We'll
regroup, tough game tomorrow with Notre Dame.
We'll throw Daniel Bard. Hopefully he'll have a good outing and we'll
rebound. We have to try to survive
here. Having our bullpen is hopefully
going to help us because we may have to throw everybody to try to stay alive
now."
On his performance Saturday:
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On if Saturday's game was special
because it was in his hometown:
"To be
honest with you, I almost felt less nervous than I do in other games. Nerves are a part of the game. I felt comfortable out there the entire
time. I don't think the fact that I was
at home, or that the crowd got extremely loud, probably as loud as I've ever
played, loudest crowd I've ever seen while I was pitching on the mound. That was amazing. I wasn't effected by being home or playing
the Gators, that didn't change."
On his expectations of
"I knew [Matt
LaPorta] was a great player. I had him
0-2, I was trying to throw the same pitch I had already thrown him twice and
got too far in with it, got too far inside.
He's an outstanding hitter, you have to be so careful with him. Throw anything near the plate and he can put
it out of the park."
On his performance Saturday:
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