Tennessee baseball head coach Tony Vitello met with the media following the Vols’ 13-3 midweek win over Bellarmine to share his thoughts on the victory and what AJ Russell’s role will look like moving forward on weekends.
Vitello also discussed what he saw from Dean Curley and Andrew Behnke, who had much-needed good performances in the win, and gave a small preview of the upcoming Kentucky series.
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Watch Vitello’s entire post-game press conference below.
“You’re talking about a brand of baseball offensively that’s maybe a little bit different than the normal stuff you see in the league, or further away from the average,” Vitello said about Kentucky. “But no matter who it is, you can say they’re closer or further away from the average, everyone presents a different problem in our league. Mississippi obviously is going to run. They’ve got a lot of left handed hitters, a lot of older guys. So everybody presents strong competition to you in the league.”
“I think it always comes back, at least with our group because I do believe in our group enough, we need to do us as best as we can. We haven’t done that the last two weekends. What’s great is you or the fans, again I’m not saying this abrasively, but people outside of our locker room can say whatever they want, but we haven’t played very good baseball the last two weekends compared to what we’re capable of and we’re 3-3 against two teams that could easily, especially offensively, could easily play make their way well into June. So it’s important for us to focus on who we are and make sure we keep getting better and play our best baseball.”
Tennessee and Kentucky will face off at 6:30 p.m. ET Friday in the series opener.
