UConn BSB Coach Jim Penders Postgame - G'Town

with Adam & Mike after winning game one of the Big East Tournament. A 5-4 win over Georgetown Wednesday Afternoon in Mason, OH

Episode Transcript

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Ohio, Myke, Crispiano, AdamGiardino joined by Jim Penderson. What was
a strange eighth inning. But let'slet's get We'll get that at a side.
Let's talk about Garrett Co five anda third longest stint of the year.
Uh, he got you up toa pretty good start, and I
know you were hoping for that andyou got that. Yeah, it really
doesn't take I did zero managing andputting him, you know in that spot

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today, there was it was anobvious choice. I mean, and people
from the outside might be, ohmy god, Co's going game one.
If you pulled our if you tooka secret poll of everybody associated on the
inside of our you know, withour program inside out, they all would
have said Garritko, Garritko, Garricko, you know, and twice on Sunday.
Because he's got guts, he's gotcourage, he's not going to be

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afraid. He loves the big momentum. Even when he's struggling. He's able
to separate pitches. You know,one pitch doesn't have anything to do with
the next pitch. He's got greatself talk, great self evaluation abilities,
and he's a leader. You know, so very happy for him. He
did a super job. You know, Zach Fogel gets the game ball because
he got the win, but Garrettwas just as important, if not more.

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When you when the team is down. We've talked about the countless comeback
victories so far this season. Wereyou seeing it in the guys that okay,
this is going to happen even thoughwe're down to run late. Yeah,
there's no there's no panic. Imean, there's zero I called there's
no real anxiety because it's just socommon, um, you know, and
it's you know, you kind ofyou come to expect it. It's like,

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all right, here we go.Smitty leads off with a clean single
and you know, I mean thenwe have great base running from him because
on that ball that Dom has theexcuse me single on that was not a
hit run, you know, hejust he got fooled on a pitch.
He got enough barrel on it tokind of create some confusion. Thank goodness,
Smithy was running. Otherwise it's aneasy out. But what smith does

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there is he just keeps running becauseif the second baseman catches the ball,
he's out by ninety feet anyway,So just keep coming and because of that,
he ran so hard. I'm ableto send him with nobody out,
and I got to be sure Icould score him with nobody out. But
it was an easy send in retrospectbecause he's so fast and he was running
hard. So yeah, we didget a little luck in the eighth,

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but we got no luck early.I mean, we're hitting some balls on
the screws. So it's interesting howthe baseball gods sometimes have it all even
out, and sometimes it doesn't happenin the span of one baseball game,
but it did today, thankfully.Yeah, Brian Padia could attest to that.
Yeah, he had two bullets andhe made four outs right right.
Yeah, and you know he didn'texecute a bond, not one, you

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know, with the other two.It's like he hit hits one on the
screws to right center. He hitsa shot at the third baseman early,
we get a run on it,but double play ball and the momentum goes
back and the other dugout. Butyeah, you're right. I mean some
balls were hit really really well.I liked our swings earlier. I think,
you know, some opposite field singlesfrom mac Garbowski from David Smith you
know, we had some nice defenseto Don Freeburger in the first inning with

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that dive and a bounce past thesecond and couldn't get to his feet.
And then Jake Studley in the ninth. I mean, that's a heck of
a catch. He didn't see itoff the bat, he makes a great
adjustment, goes back on it,and that kid's Capualati's a really good hitter
and he got all of it.And Jake, thankfully we're in no double
so he's deep. But it madea heck of a catch and grab him.
Now. One thing that Mike andI were discussing during the broadcast,

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and you got an explanation, atleast at some point from the umpires,
what distinguished the difference between getting thatcall at second for an automatic ball and
not getting the automatic ball. You'reright, I did get an explanation,
but Adam, you would have abetter You would have a better idea,
because he confused me even more.I have no idea what the rule is

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now. We've been playing that wayfor fifty something games now, and you
know he called two of them,yeah, and I one for each of
us. I mean it made Ithought it made a difference on ours a
two and oh count versus one ozho, just give us the reset, don't
don't call a ball. I mean, I guess in the spirit in the
in the rule, that's that's theactual rule. I said, So are

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we better off throwing it in thedirt, you know like their guy did?
Yeah, because I didn't know whatdifferentiated it, and um, he
was I don't know, he waspretty nervous. Yeah. I did not
feel like I got a great explanation. So you'd have a better chance to
just say so, if you aregoing to throw to second base, it's
a good a runner to go back. What do you have to do?

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Do you have to throw with force? And if you just lob it back,
there you go. Today we gotcalled today a ball was called against
us the first time all year.So I don't know, I've got to
um gotta go back. I don'tknow the game well enough. I guess
you haven't been around long enough.You know, the inside move is if
you've played the game, the insidemove at second base is such that you're

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not going to pick a guy offlike that, You're he's going to pick
himself off. So if the runnergoes on leg lift. That's when you're
gonna have a pickoff at him.In the absence of that, we've been
told, hey, just throw ita second and make it look like a
pickoff attempt to get around the rule. So we've done that all year and
nobody's called it. Today they decided, I guess there's there could be a

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supervisor in the stands or more cameras. I don't know, but it made
it. But that has to beclarified, don't you think before you're playing
more games and you can't write,you can't not know, and then the
game starts, and then suddenly ballsare getting called and guys getting hind encounts
two and all. I'm not sayingthat that's why Garrett gave up a home
running a Rex bitch, but that'sgot to be disconcerting, right. It
didn't help. It didn't help,you know, And when I got the

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explanation again, it made no senseto me. So okay, all right,
thanks, are you coming to thegame tonight? What are you doing
tonight? We actually think we've doneit both ways. We've come and sat
behind the the plate and we've actuallyfound that we get better info from the
center field camera. So we're probablygonna maybe we'll listen to you guys and
watch it watching in the stream.I wouldn't suggest not doing that. It's

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weird. It's it's easier to it'seasier to take no, and we kind
of compare notes on them, andum, there's no distractions, there's nobody
coming to talk to you, andyou can have as many diet cokes as
you want. You don't have toworry about anybody's in the stand saying that's
too many diet cokes. Go yeah, that's right, all right, Jim.
We appreciate it. A good win. Thank you. Every win's a
good win.