You can put the [hit-and-run on], but the kids have to execute it. That was Mount Carmel baseball. We challenged our guys to come up with a better effort, and they responded.

We're in a bit of a slide right now, but there's plenty of time to recover. We hit a few bumps in the road, but we know it's a long season -- 35 games.

It doesn't even seem real right now. It'll probably set in in the coming days and weeks. I'm kind of numb now.

Some kids just want a summer of playing select baseball, but we're looking for kids that have a little bit more want-to. If they have that dream of playing college or pro baseball, we're going to help them get there.

These kids are playing hustling baseball.

But he's played a lot of baseball, you can tell, ... He's got a more natural flow. The kids in his country [the Dominican Republic] play a lot and gain a lot of baseball poise. He seems sure of himself.