She's going to be vital to us. She kept us in games last year, and she should have had more wins. But we just couldn't give it to her. Our problem was that we couldn't put the nail in the coffin because we couldn't score enough runs.
I felt like we should have won it the first time.
It was a big comeback win for us. To be on the road, it was good to come back and keep our heads above water. Our players were resilient.
That thing at third base killed us. And that leadoff runner in the third inning never should have been on. Allen is as lucky as they can be to leave here with a win. And as soon as we get it all together, we're going to start winning. I hate that we didn't get to finish that tournament last weekend (because of the bad weather). I think that would have really helped us.
We didn't hit as well, but then again the weather changed a lot from our 3 p.m. game to our 730 p.m. game. We still executed well by putting the bunt down and moving runners over. So that's getting better. And our defense played well behind Erica. So hopefully those will carry over.
After Tuesday night, we had a meeting. I told them that there's no excuse for our pitcher getting 15 strikeouts and us not being able to get six outs without giving up some runs. We had been practicing kind of sluggish, and that carries over. But we bounced back Thursday and started hitting the ball. It was a good mental victory.
As long as we're playing defense behind her, we're going to do OK. Erica was good with her rhythm, but we didn't make any mistakes behind her. If we continue to do this, we're going to surprise some people.
I never cringe when the ball comes her way. We booted a couple, and that's how they scored their runs. But the infield defense was really solid.
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