Get GamecockCentral for $1. As a bonus, your membership includes a complimentary year of The Athletic.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThe rest of their team\u2026 I don\u2019t know if it was our pitching or just great hitting by them, but they were on fire today. They took a lot of good swings and hit a lot of balls hard, and they hit a couple home runs. We ended up hitting a couple of home runs, too, to get ourselves back in the game, but we hit an awful lot of balls hard that were right at people, or they made diving catches. To be honest with you, I thought when (Aaron) Jamison hit that ball in the eighth inning, I thought it was out of the ballpark. I was shocked. I guess he just hit it a little bit high, but he hit that ball really, really good. Can\u2019t say that\u2019s bad luck. I mean, it\u2019s physics. The ball didn\u2019t go far enough to go over the fence.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, Beau Hollins had a great night. He had two big hits, and then he crushed two balls and had nothing to show for the other two at bats. We had a few of those. (KJ) Scobey hit a couple balls to the fence, just not enough to get them out of the park. So, I don\u2019t know how else to explain it. I give credit to Queens. They played a great tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
What surprises you the most about the results so far through nine games?<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know. I mean, we\u2019ve done some good things. Obviously, there\u2019s three losses there that you\u2019d like to think that you were good enough to win those games. One game, we had the right guy up there with the bases loaded and two outs in the ninth inning and was struck out. Today, we had a chance, but just couldn\u2019t quite get over the hump. One game, we were terribly outplayed by Army. So, those are the three losses that we had.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a long season, and we just got to keep getting better. There\u2019s obviously areas that we need to improve in and get more consistent in, and we\u2019re going to keep working at it. This weekend would be a good time to put it all together.\u201d<\/p>\n
You talked about on the radio earlier about how, despite the comparison to last year, when you guys were undefeated up until this point, it feels different, even though you have those losses. What positives do you see, even in these losses?<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, there\u2019s always some positives. I thought Hudson Lee threw really great there at the end. Patrick Dudley, a freshman, threw the ball pretty good. And we didn\u2019t give up. The kids kept battling.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike I said, I\u2019ve seen this happen so many times in my lifetime \u2014 where you play these games (against) teams that you feel like you probably have more talent than, and you should beat them. But what happens is they gain confidence early in the game because you don\u2019t take advantage of a scoring opportunity. They do; they get a couple of big hits. Maybe you don\u2019t make quite as good of pitches. And next thing you know, you\u2019re in a hole. Then, when you guys really start focusing, they start smoking balls, but they\u2019re right at people, or they\u2019re making diving catches. You get some bad breaks go against you. I mean, it\u2019s baseball. It happens. I love this game, but there\u2019s some days, not so much because those things start to happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to take anything away from Queens. They played great today. They deserved to win, and we didn\u2019t. We\u2019re just going to have to regroup. But there\u2019s always positives. Right now, I\u2019m not thinking too much about them because I\u2019m pretty disappointed about the result of the game. But we\u2019ll analyze it all and get ready to go tomorrow for the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Carolina head baseball coach\u00a0Paul Mainieri\u00a0spoke to the media following the team\u2019s 9-8 loss to Queens on Wednesday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-145724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}