I could tell today that everybody was up because Hines Ward, he's back. The tempo of the practice today was great.

There's 22 practice days between [today] and our first game [Nov. 12]. You would like to lay the foundation, like you would with a house, and the success of your team depends on what you build those 22 practice days. Last year, we were never able to get after it because of those situations. I don't see that as an issue right now, cross your fingers.

We're actually having practice today.

We're going to have an easy practice (today), so basically, after the second quarter, that was our practice.

We had a lot of guys step up today. They've been working very hard in practice, and that's where you get better.

I don't know why we struggled to hit the ball today. We worked on hitting the outside pitches in practice all week, because we knew that is all she would throw. I don't know why struggled, but we did managed to score one run.