Tennessee baseball head coach Tony Vitello met with the media following the Vols’ 7-5 thrilling series-clinching win over South Carolina Saturday in Columbia.
Read about the win HERE.
Vitello discussed Cannon Peebles’ big ninth-inning homer, Nate Snead’s value out of the bullpen, Andrew Fischer’s strides defensively and how he thought his team battled in the come-from-behind win.
Watch Vitello’s entire post-game press conference below.
“Yeah, it’s never easy,” Vitello said about the win. “The history, tradition and the park – today’s crowd was bigger than yesterday’s. You can see, we are getting their best punch and not just with their two pitchers they threw at us. Just in general. It kind of pushed our guys. Our guys were competing early. Jarvis (Evans) was keeping them off-balance, but like you said, the way they responded and some of the plays they made.
“Ariel’s (Antigua) play is one of the best ones I’ve ever seen. He is fully capable of doing a bunch of different things. But I think that just came from trying to find a way to win. We found a different way to win than we’ve won so far this season, which is really important. Like you said, you did it on the road. You don’t want to pat them on the back too much because, again, the first half of the game wasn’t very good from our standpoint. A lot of want-to right there on display, which was impressive.”
For a full transcript of everything Vitello said, click HERE.
Tennessee will look to sweep the series Sunday at Founders Park. First pitch is at 12 p.m. ET.
