• 8 months ago
TCU relief pitcher Kyle Ayers talks about his two-inning performance after picking up the win in the Horned Frogs' 9-8 victory over USC.
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00:06 >> All right, Kyle, talk us through those couple of innings you pitched there,
00:10 the 10th and the 11th.
00:11 Just walk us through what your mentality was.
00:14 >> Yeah, so I came into the game not just like any other game,
00:17 that was my approach going into it.
00:19 And I was just trying to live pitch by pitch, get strike one, know the count,
00:22 land a curve ball when I need to, and just execute my pitches.
00:25 >> It's tough when you're cool with all that fastball,
00:27 you said in the game today you had a good run on it.
00:30 How confident are you with that?
00:32 >> I'm extremely confident in it.
00:33 I feel like I can throw it anywhere I want, so right now,
00:36 I put in a lot of work for it in the offseason.
00:39 It hasn't always been there, but just taking pride in my catch play every single
00:44 day was a really good factor that helped me with my fastball command.
00:47 >> What's your reaction when Sammy gets that signal and
00:50 throws some people around the score?
00:52 >> Yeah, that just fired me up.
00:54 I was still in the dugout sitting on the bench trying to throw the results out of
00:58 the way, just focus on getting to the next pitch.
01:00 And then when I saw that, it was just a big sigh of relief, and
01:03 I was excited for my team for getting the win, putting us 10 and 0.
01:07 >> What's the message to a guy like Ben Abel after he comes up to the red
01:09 list today, especially in the last four?
01:11 What do you say to him as a teammate?
01:12 >> Yeah, I mean, he's one of our best pitchers on our team.
01:15 He's a guy I personally look up to, and he'll bounce right back to that.
01:19 >> What is it about this team that you've left every bit of adversity in store for
01:23 you guys, that you're able to come through in any position, any team?
01:28 >> Yeah, I think we have really good team chemistry.
01:31 We're there for each other.
01:32 It's a bunch of guys that just wanna win the game.
01:35 We have standards that we live by, and we all try to reach those standards.
01:39 And we just wanna win.
01:40 I think we're a close-knit team, and we just won it really badly.
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