The first game was the usual story for us, a lot of being young mistakes and mercy ruling us, but the second game was almost completely different.

That makes me happy and gives us something to look forward to down the line. Baseball's a game that needs players to have repetition before they can get better and a lot of these kids are starting from step one.

You can talk theory and situation all you want. But what these kids need is to get more game-speed experience.

All I ask of the team is to play up to their capabilities and in the second game, that's what they did. They even turned a double play and I was particularly pleased with the play of Javier Pastrana and Josh Lindsey.

I don't even want to think about the first game. We didn't field, we didn't hit. The second game was a completely different team.

It's difficult to teach fielding ground balls or fly balls for that matter in a gymnasium. But everyone else up here has had the same problem.