David Eckstein
David Eckstein
David Mark Ecksteinis a retired American professional baseball player who was an infielder in Major League Baseball for ten seasons. He played college baseball for the University of Florida, and has played professionally for the Anaheim Angels, St. Louis Cardinals, Toronto Blue Jays, Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres. Eckstein won the 2006 World Series Most Valuable Player Award...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth20 January 1975
CitySanford, FL
definitely switched
We switched our coverage. You get two outs with one pitch, it's definitely a momentum-changer.
guess might sleep
Guess what? If we're going to be a champion, we've got to come back. We might not be able to sleep tonight, but that's normal.
bottom champion guess line
Guess what, if we're going to be a champion we've got to come back. The bottom line is we still have life.
found girl lovely
I found a beautiful, lovely girl and she said yes. So that was pretty amazing.
base front guys key
Getting guys on base in front of the big guys, that's the key to this club.
albert came coming felt game good knew reason season sit
For some reason, with Albert coming up to the plate, you just felt good about the situation, ... You can sit there and end your season on saying, 'Hey, he got him out' or 'Albert came through.' Fortunately for us, Albert came through for us and it was, 'Hey, we knew the game wasn't over yet either.'
five players top twenty watched
Twenty or 30 years from now, you're probably going to say you've watched one of the top five players to ever play this game.
expected home pack plans win
We expected to win. I didn't even pack anything (Wednesday) or make any plans for getting home because I thought we would win tonight.
balls eight hard nine pitcher throw
You get a pitcher to throw eight balls in a row like that (actually eight balls in nine pitches), and it can be hard for him to get back in the zone.
good opportunity ready
We've got a good opportunity. But we know them; they're going to be ready to play. But we'll show up, too.
envelope happen hit lay management pushed ran
We didn't lay back and let things happen today, ... We hit and ran and just pushed the envelope all day, that really show Tony's management style.
guys
Because if he's up we've got at least two guys on and we have a chance.
capable couple guys hitting home runs
We have a couple of guys capable of hitting a lot of home runs that haven't yet.
albert gonna throw
Throw Albert in any lineup and it's gonna look great.