Coming off the back of their worst season as a top-flight club, where Exeter finished second-from-bottom, the Chiefs have been impressive this season.
They have won five and drawn one of their seven league games and are just one point off their total of 29 they managed last season.
Baxter says his side’s spirit is ensuring that they are remaining competitive deep into games.
“The five points away from home, at this time of year, this is when you’ve got to start knuckling down and making things happen,” he said.
“The lads never look down and out do they? They get on with it, they get up and they fight, and we’ve talked a lot at times about sometimes just getting off the floor and getting a fight and a little tackle gets made, forcing a knock-on, you force one more error, you just stay in the fight and I think today was a perfect example.
“We stayed in the fight long enough to get things to go our way, then eventually they did.”
