WATCH! SP Kole Klecker Talks About his Shutout Outing vs. Arizona State
TCU's Kole Klecker had a stellar outing against Arizona State. The righty racked up 6.0 scoreless innings in a game that would become much more interesting after he ended his day.
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00:00 >> Yeah, trying to rock it, we'll see.
00:04 We'll see.
00:06 >> Michael, you gave six innings tonight in this crackout,
00:08 so this is the longest outing of the season.
00:10 Just talk about what it was like for you.
00:13 >> So I think it's just, it comes down to the process, which for us is executing
00:16 pitches, getting the first guy out.
00:18 Had an amazing defense behind me.
00:21 Just really focused on throwing strikes.
00:23 Felt a little sloppy in the first two innings, gave a couple walks, but
00:26 after that I feel like I settled in, made pitches, defense played behind me, and
00:30 just really good team win.
00:31 >> You mentioned some elite defense behind you.
00:36 How much confidence does it give the starting pitching staff to have
00:39 Anthony Silva and Peyton Chatagnier behind you?
00:42 >> It's absolutely game changing.
00:44 There's a lot of balls hit that probably should be hits, and
00:47 they get it out for you, and it just makes the game roll a lot faster.
00:50 It gives you confidence, allows you to throw strikes up there and do your thing.
00:53 >> Do you have any pitches or sessions?
00:56 >> So yeah, actually, kind of funny story.
00:58 I started throwing, I went up to Coach Long two days ago,
01:02 talked to him about a little cutter, threw it in a bullpen, kind of went really well.
01:07 And then we started throwing it today, had a lot of success with it, so
01:10 that's definitely something we'll be throwing going forward.
01:12 >> I was gonna say, I didn't notice that you were small at all, so.
01:15 >> Yeah, new addition two days ago, just kind of funny how baseball works like that.
01:19 >> So talking about the resiliency of this team,
01:22 you guys give up six, bottom of the seventh, and then come right back and
01:27 get six and top of the eighth.
01:29 You guys have been doing stuff like that all season.
01:31 What does that say about the team mentality?
01:33 >> Coach Lois talks about all the time, that's in our DNA.
01:36 We're never out of a game.
01:37 We'll always fight back.
01:38 So until all nine innings are over, you can't count us out.
01:42 And that's just, that's amazing quality to have as a team.
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