He is slowing the game down instead of having to hurry up and do things. He's comfortable. He caught up to those type of pitches in the summer leagues and so forth. I think now he subconsciously believes he fits into Division I baseball.

That gentleman from Vanderbilt, probably in three or four years, major leaguers aren't going to want to see him on a Friday night.

We're finally starting to get our offense in sync. We haven't been pitching well, and now we lose a handful of key guys when we really can't afford to. So now we're forced to throw some of the guys who really struggled back into the ring of fire.

He (Dirks) made some bad pitches to the good hitters and usually he does the opposite. He makes a mistake and it is usually a guy that is not a tremendous hitter. Kingsbury, who you know can hit, had a couple.

He was in the zone with three pitches. Even the one ball that was hit really shouldn't have been swung at. That was as good as I have seen him pitch.

He caught up in a hurry.