TCU baseball head coach Kirk Saarloos gives his thoughts on the team's struggles and how the veteran players "if the team wants to win, we have to step up and perform."
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00:00 >> I heard this initial thoughts on tonight's game.
00:02 >> We lost.
00:05 >> Five in a row now.
00:08 What do you think it's gonna take to turn this thing around?
00:11 >> Well, our experienced players need to play like experienced players.
00:16 It's pretty much plain and simple.
00:20 >> You draw any parallels from last year?
00:22 >> No.
00:22 >> No?
00:23 >> Zero.
00:25 >> Yeah, a couple guys returned to the lineup tonight.
00:28 >> It's good to see that Brody left in the middle of the bat.
00:31 >> Yeah, he's the same deal again.
00:33 You gotta give him credit.
00:34 He was basically one to five if I wasn't gonna let him play today.
00:38 And just took a swing and same deal again, so.
00:45 >> I saw Maxwell returning to the lineup as well in the DH role.
00:48 Was that just defensive alignment for Sam Myers in the outfield or-
00:51 >> No, we gotta protect Maxwell's hamstring.
00:55 So don't wanna run around the outfield and yeah, that was just sheer,
01:01 just so we don't put too many miles on his legs in the outfield.
01:05 >> Now, with the injuries that are simply mountains and
01:09 a lot of young players this year on the roster,
01:11 it feels like there's been a lot of changes in the lineup this year.
01:15 I think this was the 29th or 30th different lineup you guys have used this
01:18 year. >> Yes.
01:18 >> How challenging is it to get guys in a rhythm when things are changing like that?
01:23 >> Well, I mean, you get guys in a rhythm by playing good, taking good at bats.
01:27 Then you're getting a great rhythm.
01:29 But if you don't do that, I mean, you can have the same lineup all you want, but
01:34 you wanna play more, play better.
01:36 And there's a reason why we have 29 different lineups.
01:40 Trying to figure out, give guys opportunities to figure out if we're missing
01:44 something in terms of who we're playing.
01:45 And so, yeah, 29 different lineup to figure out how to score runs.
01:53 >> I noticed TJ was at third today as well.
01:55 Is that another kind of just try to spark some things?
01:57 >> Yeah, I mean, at this point, I mean, you're kind of trying everything.
02:00 Just kind of getting him to third base and Coach Laro over at first really wasn't
02:07 anything more to look into that, just a matter of let's change things up a little
02:12 bit and see if we can't spark something.
02:14 And baseball's a weird game, a superstitious game.
02:18 And at this point, there's really nothing that's not on the table in terms of
02:23 trying to figure out how to play good nine innings of baseball.
02:27 And I thought Peyton was solid and Zach was pretty good.
02:34 But I mean, you just can't, it's not sustainable in terms of,
02:37 we punched out a bunch of guys.
02:40 But they punched out six when ballgame seven won.
02:43 We punched out 17 of their guys and lost seven to one.
02:46 So it doesn't matter what strikeouts.
02:48 It's a matter of can you pitch and can you play good defense and
02:51 keep people off the scoreboard?
02:52 And two outs, nobody on in the ninth, and they end up getting two from it on two
02:58 balls that don't leave the infield, but it's self-induced by hit by pitches and
03:01 walks.
03:02 So those things usually end up happening when things aren't going good.
03:07 When things are going good, those are line drives at somebody or
03:13 whatever it may be.
03:14 When they're not going good, it just compounds.
03:16 And so every single at bat, every single pitch means something.
03:21 And ultimately, we gotta figure out how to play better baseball,
03:26 cuz we're not doing it.
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