Charlie Manuel
Charlie Manuel
Charles Fuqua Manuel, Jr.is an American senior advisor for the Philadelphia Phillies, and a former professional baseball outfielder, coach and manager in Major League Baseballand Nippon Professional Baseball. During his playing career, he appeared over parts of six MLB seasons for the Minnesota Twins and Los Angeles Dodgers before playing another six seasons in NPB with the Yakult Swallows and Kintetsu Buffaloes. Over four successive seasons in NBP, he hit at least .312 with 37 home runs each season and...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth4 January 1944
CityNorthfolk, WV
When (right-hander) Lidge is on the mound, throwing 90 miles-per-hour sliders, he eats righties up, ... We needed a base hit there. We didn't need a home run. Chavez puts the ball in play. The more I thought about it, more I realized I couldn't have done much different to get Howard up on the righty (in the seventh).
Ryan Howard is legit. And he's more than just a power hitter, too. He's capable of hitting for a high average, he's capable of hitting the ball to all fields ... he's done everything we wanted him to do, everything we asked him to do.
A big hit there. Then we could have made things interesting.
Any time you see a rookie who comes into the league, whether it's a hitter or a pitcher, and he does something, it's very rare, ... Any time you are successful like that, it's very special.
I think by him gaining confidence in himself, that gained my confidence in him,
I think his velocity was down. I think we kind of figured him out.
I stopped watching that one on the scoreboard. I figured it was over.
Look, Jimmy Rollins is what makes our offense go. Jimmy is what I like to call our catalyst.
That was long. They got ahead early and took it to us. We stunk up the joint.
We won the series. Hopefully that will be good enough. We just have to keep winning.
We're getting good balls to hit. And we're not missing them.
I won't quit on a player who doesn't quit on himself.
I think we're out on a limb right now, hanging over a cliff, and we're trying to find a way to get back.
There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table.