For the second straight weekend, the Tennessee Vols baseball team has dropped a series. 

Tennessee fell 9-3 to Florida on Friday night for their second loss in the weekend series. 

The Vols will try to salvage the series and avoid a sweep on Saturday. 

After losing to the Gators on Friday evening, Tennessee baseball coach Tony Vitello spoke with reporters. 

And he seemed to express some frustration with one aspect of UT baseball at the moment — too many non-competitive at-bats. 

A reporter asked Vitello about Tennessee's 32 strikeouts against Florida in the first two games of the series. 

Vitello didn't seem concerned with the high number of strikeouts. Instead, he was more concerned about the non-competitive ending to many of those at-bats (looking at strike three). 

"The number that is too high is the non-competitive at-bats," said Vitello on Friday. "The non-competitive last pitch of the at-bat is the way to say it."

"So get in the box and compete," added Vitello. "Locking up with two strikes isn’t an option. We have done that. That is what you are pointing out. If you are (watching) on TV and you are wearing orange and you are angry at me or the players, it is those ones."

Vitello acknowledged that sometimes the opposing pitcher just makes a good pitch, but he also noted that that's not always the case. 

"I get you, the splitty (splitter) is really good. Something like that, I ain’t going to say tip your cap but that might be part of the baseball game," explained Vitello. "What can’t be part of the baseball game or is not an option is locking up and having everyone in the dugout just as frustrated as the fans or you or the coaching staff.”

The talent is there for Tennessee to make a deep postseason run. Fans can look to the Ole Miss Rebels' up-and-down regular season last year before winning it all in Omaha as a reason to not panic about this Vols team. 

But things need to change quickly. Mostly, everyone on Tennessee's roster needs to get on the same page. It's evident that the chemistry just isn't there yet. That doesn't mean it can't get there. But if that chemistry doesn't develop, then the Vols won't stand a chance in late May and June when tournament time begins.