Clint Hurdle
Clint Hurdle
Clinton Merrick Hurdleis an American former professional baseball outfielder and current manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball. Hurdle played in MLB for the Kansas City Royals, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, and St. Louis Cardinals, and has also managed for the Colorado Rockies...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth30 July 1957
CityBig Rapids, MI
balls five
He only had five balls on the ground. He wasn't sharp.
played team won
But we played better than the other team tonight. We won by one run.
four played playoffs three
I played and I went to the playoffs three of the first four years, and I thought it was just part of the package. And I haven't been back since.
improvement maybe optimism today
I think there is improvement. More optimism maybe today than there was yesterday.
angle gonna good
I had a good angle on it. All I'm gonna say is, we play them 14 more times (this season).
clean final fine innings job men score sooner
I don't know -- that'll all go into the final evaluation. Clean innings would be a big plus. There's something to be said for getting out of them. But when you have men on base, they're going to score sooner or later. He's done a fine job so far.
needs week
It's going to take a week to get Barmes and Hawpe their 30 at-bats, ... And Neal just needs to pitch.
fill hear help hundred hurt means shows sure wants wins
If Quintanilla shows up and wins the job, he's going to fill that role. But it's a win-win situation. For him to go to Triple-A for a hundred more at-bats -- I'm sure that's not what he wants to hear -- but I don't think it will hurt him by any means and it could help him.
baseball blowing hit scholars-and-scholarship today wind
That was a pretty swing. That's a tremendously well-struck baseball today with wind blowing the way it was, hit over the scoreboard.
adding players start wrong youth
There's nothing wrong with that. Now you can start adding up the one- and two-year players and see that we've got a lot of youth on our side.
everybody game hard played
A big game for Sullivan, and a big game for us. Everybody contributed. We played really hard and got a lot of things done.
mapped pitches
He very well could, if he pitches well enough, ... That's been mapped out for him, told him he could have that opportunity.
cards early games guys house improvement pick season situations willing
There were games early in the season where we crumbled like a house of cards in situations like that. These guys are willing to pick one another up and that is a big improvement with this team.
analyzed last result three work
That was the result of a lot of work the last three weeks, in which (Francis) analyzed what had been happening.