Ben had a pretty good day. His last home run was huge.

From Day 1, the guys made me feel at home. Once the game started, I felt pretty comfortable. (Blaze coach Danny) White did a great job of keeping it simple tonight. The guys responded around me and did a great job.

At the beginning, I was getting a little bit panicked because he's definitely our number one (starter). That was as hard as he's been hit by far all year. He was just leaving the ball up. You can't leave the ball up in this league.

When we're going good, we've been real good. But we've gotten down in a few games and just haven't been able to come back. We really needed that. The kids need to know that they can come from behind and compete and win a big game like this against an excellent team.

He's pitched three games well against three really good teams, he just didn't get the win. This time he made sure we was going to get a win.

It's been remarkable. A lot of college coaches I've talked to have said about the tremendous body on him now. College coaches are big on that. They want all their players to look alike. He really worked on it and that's a credit to him.