 Welcome into the Jason Taney show. I'm Joe Wombo, joined with Jason Taney, head coach of the baseball team. And coach, you guys, go down south again for another three game set, one and two this weekend. But scoring a lot of runs. We definitely scored some runs this weekend. We had, I guess, we scored 17 on Friday and a combined 22 on Saturday. So we're hitting the ball. Unfortunately, when you score that many runs and you lose, that usually means something else is going on. Pitching wasn't too bad. We struggled defensively. I'm really hoping that first weekend, we pitched really well. Second weekend, we hit really well. So hopefully next weekend, we'll actually put it all together and go 3-0 at our own home tournament that's coming up. And that home tournament, you're going to have another class of ball here. You're going to have Frostberg, Scranton, and Keystone. You guys are going to need to bring it. Yeah, we're going to need to bring our A game. And if you include the fact that Hopkins is hosting the other half of the tournament, Hopkins and Cortland as well. Good Lord, those are all World Series teams in the last five years, except for us and Scranton. But it was worth it. It's fun. We're going to enjoy it. Last time we played Cortland, we lost to them twice in both one-run ball games in North Carolina a couple of years ago. Keystone and us, we used to be in the same conference. We played good games with them. And same with Frostberg. We've beaten Frostberg many a times, especially when we were in conference together. A little more challenging now. We didn't play that well the last time we played them. So hopefully this weekend we'll change it around a little bit. You mentioned in the season preview video that you set the schedule this way for a reason. You're going to play Tough Opponents, getting you ready for the conference. What is this weekend do in terms of getting you guys ready for more games down the season along? You know, a couple of things we always like to do. We try to play in three game sets, because that's what we do in the conference. So we want us to get used to playing one on Friday, two on Saturday, or something along those lines for pitching. But really what we're trying to do is continue to extend our starting pitching, continue to get more innings out of them. We're hurt this week with a couple of things. Dan Williams was not available this weekend due to an injury. Not season threatening, but probably missed a start. Maybe two, we'll see. But that hurt us a little bit. But other than that, we're trying to stretch out our other starters. So the come conference time in a couple of weeks, we're two weeks away from a conference opener, our starting pitchers can go seven innings comfortably. That's really what we're trying to build up to. That's what my next question was going to be, is lifting the pitching count or higher, hiding, making the pitch count higher for the starters and try to limit how much you need the bullpen. But is that the game plan as we go on this weekend? It is, it is. First weekend, our starters, 80 pitch max. We'll pull them out in the middle of an inning if we have to, with 80 pitches. Second weekend, we try to extend to 90. This weekend, we're trying to get up closer to 100. After this weekend, everything becomes performance-based. If you're pitching well, you stay out there. We never extend our pitchers too far. But it's going to be about how well you're performing. And then, yeah, that'll help limit the innings in the bullpen, because our bullpen was struggling a little bit. We think we may have found something here at the end of the game yesterday, at the end of the second game. We'll see how this plays out. But we have something special in the mound, I think. That's been hidden all year. And getting back to your home field, it's a tough field to play on, hitting-wise. Hopefully, the hitting that you guys had going on this weekend will continue. But the weather, being more up north, is going to play a little bit more of a factor. Absolutely. We've had some great weather so far. First, I guess, all but yesterday's games, we're basically in shorts as coaching staff until game time. Yesterday was a little colder, but we still hit. So we'll see what happens this weekend. But with us, the wind starts to play a much bigger factor on our home field. Friday is looking a little wet and a little windy. And we'll see what we do on Friday. We'll see if that's a conversation we have with their coach and try to adjust some things. But yeah, we'll see how the hitting goes. We've continued to hit the ball well, though. Guys like Kevin Copas, he's got 15 RBIs and six games. And he's adopted our hitting philosophy and what we've changed this year. And he hit his first career home run on Saturday. His first career triple on Saturday. I was even a joke he hit his first career double, but that was not the case. But no, he's been tearing the cover off the ball. And what's nice is it's not just him. It's been up and down our lineup. Freshmen coming in, bats right away, newcomers. We're just hitting the ball over the place right now. I hope we do this all year. It's a strong lineup, and it's a versatile lineup. Any of those guys could pretty much hit anywhere in those slots. In addition to that, we've got some speed guys, too. I think we have 18 stolen bases in six games. So that's three a game. We've got a couple guys that can really run the base as well. And they've got the ability to, and they're going to steal some bases. We're going to let them go. We'll take the base that they're going to give it to us. I was shaping up to be a pretty exciting season, especially with those numbers like that. And we're awfully excited for you guys as a home opener over on the Greenspring campus. Yep, where it's going to be the newly named sugar field is what it's going to be named. Our scoreboard is, I believe it was completed this weekend. It was supposed to be. I know we get out to practice here tomorrow. We'll see it. But it's going to be sugar field, and it is ready to go. Well, Coach, we wish you the best of luck this weekend. And thank you for your time this week. Thank you. He's Jason Taney. I'm Joe Wamba. This has been the Jason Taney Show.