The Georgia baseball team is certainly used to winning.

Last year, the Bulldogs won plenty, advancing all the way to the Super Regionals, where Wes Johnson’s squad finished one game shy of going to Omaha in his first season as head coach. This spring, Georgia (25-2) enters this weekend’s home series against Auburn off to its best start in years.

Expectations grow with every victory.

But as Johnson is quick to point out, what has happened so far doesn't matter.

Looking back and patting yourself on the back will do you no good.

“I mean, that's our team; we talk so much about respecting the game, right? It doesn't matter about emotions or the score from the last game. Great players, great teams, they have to learn to go to the next game no matter what just happened. We're gonna lose a tough one somewhere along the way. And it's how you just get up the next day if you let that fester or you carry over too much from what happened in the weekend. That's how you'll sneak up and get beat.”

Take Tuesday’s game with West Georgia, for example.

The Bulldogs were coming off their first road sweep of Florida since 2006. However, there would be no letdown against the Wolves.

Despite a mid-inning blip that saw West Georgia score six unanswered runs, the Bulldogs kept their cool and rolled to a 13-6 win.

“I really challenged our guys to get a day to respect the game, come out, doesn't matter who you're playing, stay locked in from the first pitch, and keep going,” Johnson said. “In a lot of other sports, you get to enjoy it, I guess, a little longer. We had the bus ride to enjoy it. But it’s like I told our guys when we got back here, whatever time it is, it's over. You have to learn to, and our game is every day, and it's like I tell them, today was the most important game we had on the schedule because it was the only one on the schedule. When we get to Friday, it'll be the most important game of the year because it's the only game on the schedule. We just have to learn to continue to keep that mindset.”

Outfielder and Kentucky transfer Nolan McCarthy said the team is completely bought in.

“I feel like this team takes things day by day, and we kind of prepared for West Georgia that way,” McCarthy said. “Last weekend's over with you can't think about that.”

Considering the way Georgia’s season has begun, there’s certainly no reason to change.

With four more home runs on Tuesday, the Bulldogs continue to lead the country with 74. Ryland Zaborowski leads the way with 14, followed by Robbie Burnette with 13. However, six other Bulldogs have five or more home runs as Georgia continues to show it has one of the deeper lineups around.

“One of the things as we've talked a lot about, how are you gonna replace Charlie Condon and Corey Collins? Our whole mindset was we gotta get deeper, we gotta get the lineup deeper,” Johnson said. “We may not have a guy with 35, well, we won't have a guy with 35 home runs. But maybe we can stretch that number all one through nine and get more. We’re starting to see that balance coming.”

Georgia’s starting pitching also seems to be coming around.

Last weekend, the Bulldogs received five shutout innings from Brian Curley and five innings of one-run ball from Leighton Finley. Getting more length from its starters allowed the bullpen to settle into specific roles, and Tuesday night the good work continued as Georgia’s relief corps – for the most part – shut the Wolves down.

Included was left-hander Alton Davis II.

Davis has struggled with his mechanics, but Tuesday night he looked like his old self, striking out two batters, with velo that topped at 96 mph.

Johnson said it was the best the Alabama transfer has looked since the opening series at UNC-Wilmington, although he declined to say what steps he’s taken with the pitcher to hopefully get him back on track.

“That’s triple top secret stuff, but I'll just say, we had to get back to locating the ball where he needs to,” Johnson said. “That and really back to pitching with conviction, I’ll use that term, too. We just wanted him to come back and quit trying too hard because sometimes pitchers get into a mindset where they're more worried about location than they are just their stuff and just getting after it. We had to get him back there, but there was some mechanical stuff with it, too.”