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Nebraska press conference with Cayden Brumbaugh, Coach Will Bolt and Ty Horn. #huskers #nebraska
May 31, 2025
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just uh obviously a hard-fought win
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against a really good pitcher. Um ours
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was just a little bit better. I thought
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Tai was absolutely dominant. Uh big big
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moment in the first inning uh where he
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got off the field first and third.
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Nobody out. Awfully proud of our defense
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today. Um not easy to do after late
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night and a quick turnaround to come and
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and play clean baseball and that's what
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we did. And the slug was a difference
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for us today. I mean, we left some we
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left some things out there offensively,
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but the slug was the difference with the
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home runs from uh Brum and Zo.
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Questions.
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What were the challenges with such a
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quick turnaround for everybody? Well,
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yeah. I mean, not any I don't think
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anybody got a whole lot of sleep. Um,
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you know, we get up and basically come
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downstairs in our uniform and and u try
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to get a quick bite to eat and do a a
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quick uh pitcher meeting and a hitter
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meeting. And um the key is just hit the
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reset button and then that that's it's
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easier said than done, but when you kind
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of try to practice that over the course
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of the year, um if you let your emotions
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get involved and tell yourself how tired
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you are, you're not going to play very
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well. So, um I think everybody kind of
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tricked their minds today to had the had
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the uh usually it's a quiet bus ride uh
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on the way to the park to get kind of
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focused. Today it was uh we had some
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music bump in and the guys brought the
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energy and that was that was a big
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difference maker.
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Ty, did you go back to the hotel early
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last night or did you stay till the end
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of the game? Oh, I stayed till the end
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of the game. Okay. Wonder because
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sometimes they'll next day's pitcher.
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So, what was what was working so well
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for you after you got out of that first
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game? Um, coach had a scouting report. I
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was just throwing what he was calling
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me. We kind of had a meeting after last
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week with him and I I shook him off and
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he didn't like that. So he I swore hand
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him on the Bible that I would never
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shake off again. So
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Kaden, can you take us through the home
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run, please? Yeah. Um I just was trying
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to put a good swing on the ball. I had
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come up with runners in scoring
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position. Uh less than two outs a couple
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times early in the game. Uh had a good
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game plan going in that third at bat.
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Kind of knew what he was trying to do
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getting the heater in on me and um just
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was able to get the barrel out front. So
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that was good. Coach, how important was
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it the home run, not just to go ahead,
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but you've left the bases loaded with
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nobody out the the inning before and
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they had gone ahead in the top half of
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that inning. So how important was it
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that two run home in the bottom of the
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fifth? Yeah, it it's giant because
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because the momentum had started to
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swing the other way and uh you know,
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they had scored like you said, they had
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scored the run. So the only goal there
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is just let's find a way to win this
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inning. I mean, what happened in the
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past doesn't really matter. So, um, but
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we've been we've been a very
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opportunistic offense that way where,
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um, we really responded challenge and,
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um, you know, that was a big swing by a
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guy that's hitting the middle of the
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order for a reason. Has driven in a lot
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of big runs for us and and, um, you
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know, it's a really confident swing
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right there. Will, you talked about the
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challenge of coming back today.
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Tomorrow, you
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face possibly a bigger challenge. You
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may have to play two games. And I'm
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wondering what is your pitching
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situation right now. Do you know your
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third game starter? And beyond that,
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what would be your plan? Well, we I I'm
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not ready to name a starter just yet. I
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don't think we're going to talk about
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that. Uh Tai certainly gave us a shot in
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the arm. I mean, with going as deep as
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he did, and we only used two arms in
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this game. So, um you know, we've got a
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lot of guys that haven't thrown yet.
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We've got some starters that that have
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yet to take the ball. Um, so we'll we'll
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kind of talk about it this evening and
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wake up and the the challenge is we get
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to extend our season. I mean, that's the
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fun part of it is is coming out and you
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know, you got just just let it fly. You
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know, you don't really think about the
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what if. I mean, we've we've been uh
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backs against the wall for a while now
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and uh our guys seem to play at their
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best when we're kind of in that
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scenario. So, um, good thing is is that,
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you know, we've got a coaching staff as
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well that's that's had experience and
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coming back through the losers bracket.
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regional and winning it. Um, so again,
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there's just everything that goes into
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it. You just understand that you can't
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look at the the giant picture. You just
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got to look at how can we be at our best
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to start the game tomorrow. Um, and how
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can we respond to, you know, things that
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come our way. So, did you have to win
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four consecutive in the earlier season
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you're talking about? Uh, yeah. Yeah.
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just finding a way to I mean we we did
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in the tournament last year the Big 10
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tournament but other regionals and stuff
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like that. I mean we've our coaching
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staff has that experience. Ty, how aware
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were you going into the game and not
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only did you want to have a quality
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start, but you want to eat up innings
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and you wanted to go deep as deep as you
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could in this game. Yeah, I think
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especially with us losing day one and
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we're going to have to play another game
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unfortunately. But yeah, it's just get
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our get as far as I can in the game and
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put us in a good position to win and
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trust the defense behind me. That's kind
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of just the main goal with that.
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Everybody good? All right. Thank you
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guys. Congratulations. See you tomorrow.
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