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UNC's Carter French, Scott Forbes and Jackson Van De Brake after loss to Arizona, #UNC
Jun 7, 2025
UNC's Carter French, Scott Forbes and Jackson Van De Brake after loss to Arizona, #UNC
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Congratulations to Arizona. Um, credit
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to them. They played extremely well. Uh,
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tell you the type of team that we have
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to give up 16 hits, still be in the
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game, and have a chance to win. At the
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end of the day, I just walked in the
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locker room. I told the guys on August
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19th, our first team meeting, if I told
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you we were going to be playing at home
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in a game three of a super regional,
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what would you do? You take it
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immediately. Uh, so we're going to take
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a shower. We're going to move on from
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that game fast. And I'm really excited
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to watch our guys tomorrow. I'm gonna
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stay out of their way and I'm gonna let
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them do it. Questions, Tony. Coach, for
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familiar territory, I mean last weekend
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in a very similar spot. You talk about
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the message all the time. Um, but being
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in the familiar territory, does that
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make it easier or
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I wouldn't say it necessarily makes it
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easier. Um, but you have done it and
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you've been in that elimination game
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which we were in Monday against
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Oklahoma. So, we're in another one. Um,
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and we're in another one where we had a
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chance to clinch the regional on Sunday.
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The only difference is it's one day
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instead of four games is three games.
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Um, so yeah, anytime you know you've
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done something before, you definitely
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can revert back to that. So, that that
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definitely won't hurt.
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I I assume Ryan Lynch will start. What
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does your pitching look like after him?
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Because you don't have McDuffy rested as
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you did last week. Yeah, you know what?
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He'll be rested. He'll be he'll throw
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better tomorrow than he did today. Um
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Lynch will start the game and we'll have
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everybody available to pitch tomorrow.
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Grace Jackson and Carter, what do you
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guys take away from last weekend's
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Oklahoma game, the one that you lost,
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then today to take into tomorrow?
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Jackson, take that first, please. Um I
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think kind of just what coach was
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talking about. I mean, we we've been
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there before. Um we know we knew coming
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in Arizona really hits it and we saw
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that today. Um it's going to be hard
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again tomorrow and uh we'll be ready to
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go.
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Um, I don't think we played our best
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today, but we're going to be ready for
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it tomorrow. Um, last week was that was
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a tough game, but we bounced back and I
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think we're ready for it.
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Scott, what did what did you think was
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not working for McDuffy today? And and
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was this the pressure of this moment too
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sort of a reminder that he is a freshman
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as well as he's as well as he's pitched
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all year? Yeah, I mean, we put a lot of
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pressure on their guys, too. Um, and
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they're older. I'm not into the freshman
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thing. He's been in those situations all
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year. He was amped up. He had great life
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on his ball. He'll settle in. He's a
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pitcher. Um, and that was the thing that
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hurt us a little bit today. We had good
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stuff top to bottom. We just weren't
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putting that stuff where we want to put
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it. If you don't put it where you want
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to get a good team, they make you pay.
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Um, so really it was just a command
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thing. He just wasn't commanding the
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ball, throwing the ball where he wanted
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to. Uh, lead off walk, which is never
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good. Uh but he's our guy and he hasn't
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pitched a lot. We've we've used him
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wisely. Um and a lot of times when you
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haven't pitched in a while, you feel
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better on that backtoback day. So that's
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what I expect to see tomorrow.
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Um for coach talking about plays with
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two outs in terms of hitting and
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defense, how do you think that sort of
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kind of led to it? Yeah, they they did a
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really good job today with two outs. Um,
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you know, so I'm a firm believer in
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giving credit where credit's due and
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they had good at bats and we didn't put
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them away and that's why they ended up
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on top. Jackson, how does your mindset
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kind of change or does it change at all
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going knowing you guys going into an
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automation game? I wouldn't say it
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changes. I think we we're coming in the
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same way we did today going to play our
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baseball and it'll go our way. Um, it's
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kind of something that we talk about
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regardless of the game or or the stage.
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We're playing our baseball, so that
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won't change. Grayson, Jaden, coach,
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what is it about that putaway pitch and
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that putaway batter that you think kind
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of eluded you guys today? You had a lot
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of pitchers that went into those full
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counts and that started up that just
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couldn't get it done. Yeah, again, I
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thought they grinded out at bats well.
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Um, I thought some of our pitches were
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balls out of the hand. Uh, we always
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want to try to throw a competitive
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pitch. That's toning the same pitch. Uh,
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but you know, also I have to go back and
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watch because it's a lot different from
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the side, so I try not to to say too
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much. I just don't think we executed
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extremely well on the mound. Um, but
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man, that's been the backbone of our
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team. You win as a team, you lo and you
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lose as a team, we also left some guys
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on base and we had some chances to
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potentially maybe put them away and and
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divide that lead a little bit. J,
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speaking of the guys uh y'all left on
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base, obviously 13 of them um for the
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players, was there anything that their
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pitchers were doing that, you know,
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maybe kept y'all off balance or was it
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just not getting it to the right spots?
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Carter, you first please. Um no, I I
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just think that we we put some good at
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bats together. It's just sometimes the
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ball didn't land our way or we didn't
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get the pitch we were looking for. we
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might have gone out of the zone earlier
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in the count when we should have
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probably been more patient. So, I just
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think that we can do a better job
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tomorrow and today wasn't wasn't great.
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Uh yeah, I mean I I think that we did
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hit some balls hard right at guys and we
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we had chances for sure, but I think for
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the most part we we actually did execute
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our plan pretty well. Um and it's just
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kind of a matter of getting that big
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hit. Um and we got a couple of them. We
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needed one more maybe. Um, but I thought
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we'll we we really had our approach and
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we'll have it again tomorrow and we'll
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stick with it. Michael here. Uh, coach,
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you said yesterday that you thought
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today was going to be a hard game. What
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led you to to say that? It's just the
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way it works. Um, rarely is it like it
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was yesterday. Uh, I just had that
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feeling. I think they're a really good
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team and we spent a lot of time scouting
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them. Obviously, how we play is most
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important. Um, but you don't get to this
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point of the season if you don't have
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really good teams. Uh, so I just have
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that feeling. I think tomorrow will be
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the same. Um, and I'm excited. Really, I
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am because this is why you coach, but
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this is also why you come to the
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University of North Carolina as a player
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uh to play in these games. So, I'm
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excited for our players. A few more,
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Adam, then Brian. Jackson, I was just
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wondering like how would you describe
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sort of the mood uh of the team in the
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postgame locker room and and is there a
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sense of, you know, hey, we we did this
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five, six days ago against Oklahoma? Is
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that is that do you think that's there?
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Yeah, I mean, you can feel that for
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sure. Obviously, we wanted to get it
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done today and we had chances to do so,
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but once that final out was made, we're
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already moving on. Um there's no point
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hanging on to to today. Um and like you
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said, like we we've been there before.
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before we did it last weekend and we
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know we can do it again.
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Scott, um you talked in the second game
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of Oklahoma about you guys were kind of
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saving Lynch McDuffy for the Monday
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game. Was there any of that going on?
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Did that factor at all into taking
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McDuffy out of the game in terms of
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planning curve? Well, he he was tagged
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pretty good. He had great stuff
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actually. I mean, some of the best VO
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he's had. Um, but we also felt like he
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had thrown so much, you know, we wanted
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to make the change right there and uh
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their their lefty put a good swing on
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that first pitch slider from Fulier, but
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we definitely talked about we knew that
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we would not pitch somebody unless we
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had the lead. But even, you know, we
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take the lead back there, we're probably
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going to go for it. Um, but we knew we
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weren't going to pitch either Lynch or
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Hal because one of those two would start
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tomorrow. Anybody else
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for coach and the players? A very back
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and forth game, lots of responses. Was
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there any sort of topical shifts in kind
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of strategy or mindset throughout the
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game? Not really. I mean, you know, I'm
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a firm believer you just got to read the
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game and you play pitch to pitch and
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these guys can answer for themselves.
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But they've done a great job of buying
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into that. Uh not getting too high or
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not getting too low and understanding
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you have to finish the game and play all
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27 outs.
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Grace, last one. Jackson, tomorrow will
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be your last game with the Bosch.
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There's a lot of older guys. Do you say
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anything to this team knowing that for
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some of you guys this is it tomorrow? I
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mean, probably not. Not not in that
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regard at least. Um, we knew that we
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would be here or we hoped that we would
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be here in this spot. You kind of, you
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know, that's coming at some point. Um,
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but in our minds, it's not our last
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game. Um, and that's more important than
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than our last home game, for sure. All
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right. Thanks, guys.
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