They've obviously been great for our program. They're not only great athletes, but they raise everybody else's level of play. They're also great kids.

Once he settled in, he really did a nice job keeping Taft off balance. They're a really good fastball hitting club, and Marcus was able to throw his off-speed pitches for strikes.

He's really on a tear. He's seeing the ball well, and he's looking for good pitches. It's just a matter of getting more at-bats and doing more situational hitting in practice so we can get ready to play these games.

We're coming on after a little bit of a slow start. We're hitting the ball hard. We're doing more situational hitting in practice, working on hitting in certain counts. Overall, it's just more of a focus up at the plate.

They've got some guys who throw pretty hard. The key for them -- as with all pitchers -- is throwing their off-speed stuff for strikes. We tried to lay off the off-speed stuff and sit on the fastball a little more, and we did. Overall, we hit the ball hard. We hit the ball hard the first four innings but just right at people.

That was a big win. Last time, we had several opportunities to put the game away early and didn't take advantage of them. Coming back the way we did was a good win for us.