Arizona State registers 14-10 win over Oregon State at the Pac-12 tournament to further its case for postseason berth
SCOTTSDALE — Nick McLain isn't a fan of mornings. Most college students are not. But Arizona State baseball coach Willie Bloomquist wanted to send a message to his team and the best way to do that was call for an early morning practice.
"It wasn't a grueling practice. It was more of a, `You got to get your stuff together here,' The fact that it's 7 a.m., and these are 18, 19-year old kids, that's enough in itself to get their attention," Bloomquist said."At this stage in the game I'm not going to run them into the ground, being this late in the season.
"I wasn't a fan of it. I'm not a morning person," McLain said of the early wake-up call."The message was put across, we needed to win today. We had a good practice as a team and got it done today." The Sun Devils went into the late innings up 14-5, only to give up two in the bottom of the eighth and three in the ninth, making the lead tenuous at best. So Bloomquist was not entirely happy.
"We have to be better than that. If we want to be a team that is taken seriously. We got to finish the job and be better than that. I think they know that, just let the foot off the gas and lost focus. If you want to be good you've got to remain focused the full nine. Enough to get he job done today but it wasn't pretty," Bloomquist said.
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