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Oklahoma pitcher Cade Crossland and Coach Skip Johnson after Sunday win over Nebraska. #UNC
Jun 1, 2025
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some of the their mistakes and uh we
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kind of capitalized on it and he gave
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some room for K to go out and just drove
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strike one one pitch at a time and I
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thought he did a great job and our
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offense kept going. It's pretty tough.
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You really don't realize how u tough it
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is when you're sitting in the dugout for
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15 10 15 20 minutes per time to go out
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and stay focused on throwing strike one.
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I think that he showed a great example
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of doing that tonight. And uh defense
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was really good and uh offense was
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extremely good. Question.
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Skip, you talked about this last night.
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You like the way your team showed some
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resilience and came back and scored five
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runs late against the Tar Hills. Did
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that carry over today because it would
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seem like it did. Yeah, absolutely.
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There's no doubt about that. Once we uh
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broke that and stopped uh trying so hard
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and just started competing, it was a big
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difference. And I thought it was a great
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example of it today when uh when those
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guys got big hits and big moments and
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just kind of kept the they sustained
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rallies uh even though we forced some
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mistakes on them uh that we kind of
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sustained a rally and ran the bases
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really well. How important was it for
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Kane to have the long outing to save
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your arms for tonight and what's your
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pitching plan for tonight? Well, we've
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been I've been through the losers
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brackets a lot in my career and uh you
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got to have one guy step up or two guys
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step up to get back to where you want to
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be and I think that was really great
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example of him today. Um you know he had
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his mindset on going eight innings and I
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could kind of tell you know those
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innings those long innings started
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taking a toll on him especially at the
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end when he I think it was the sixth
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inning you know he gets the lead off
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hitter on then he walks a guy and uh and
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that's not him. So, uh, I think that's
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when we decided to go with Katalano,
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but, uh, him stepping up and throwing
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big and only using two guys was really
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huge. And who do who do you expect to
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start tonight? U, I don't know yet. I'll
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have to sit down and look at it. And,
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uh, from that point on, questions, Kate,
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from from your standpoint, what was what
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was it like to have such a big early
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lead and know you had margin forever? I
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mean, it's fun to watch those guys just
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play with everything they got out there
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and it makes it easy to pitch. Um,
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because I mean, you know, they're
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working hard behind you, just rallying
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the whole team, dugout staying up, and
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it just makes it fun. Do you change your
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pitching approach when you've got a big
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lead like that? No, everything has to
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stay the same all year.
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Skip Eastston Carmichael, if I'm not
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mistaken, the only regular from your
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team for the last three seasons who's
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still in the lineup. Have you seen him
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hit the ball as well as he did today?
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Yeah, I have. I mean, uh, he he has some
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experience and yeah, I have I've seen
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that and, um, he's a good offensive
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player and he's gotten better and better
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and he's been a leader and it showed
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today. I mean, he really had some great
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swings and some good pitches. I mean, I
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think one of them was a home run that
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was down in I think was a solo shot and
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maybe the third inning that kind of got
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the rally really going and I thought it
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was huge. What did you learn from seeing
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North Carolina last night? It'll be
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helpful helpful for your pitchers
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tonight. If I if I told you that, I'd
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have to kill you.
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I can't. We don't want nothing. Maybe uh
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if I had a joystick we in the dugout,
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maybe I could make them swing and miss a
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little bit more. I don't know. I don't
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have a joystick. We don't have that. We
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just call the pitch and hopefully they
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execute the pitch and not try to execute
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the pitch.
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Anybody else? Okay, guys. Thank you.
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advice.