Doug Mirabelli
Doug Mirabelli
Douglas Anthony Mirabelliis a former Major League Baseball catcher. He played for the San Francisco Giants, Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox, and San Diego Padresbefore returning to the Red Soxto end his eleven-year career. He batted and threw right-handed...
ball dance-and-dancing mixed needed people pitches strikes
He strikes out people with his movement. Obviously, the ball was dancing. He mixed in some other pitches when he needed to.
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(General manager Kevin Towers) told me that I would start unless something fell into his lap, and Piazza will help this team. I'm just surprised that he couldn't find work in the American League (where he could be used as a designated hitter). Getting a hitter like Piazza for what? - $1.25 million a year (plus incentives)? You can't turn that down.
ability biggest coming confident guys knew last lose six three trying win
The biggest thing was not coming in here and getting swept. That would have put a damper on where we?re trying to get to. We play these guys three more times. We knew that as long as we didn?t lose six times to these guys out of the last 20 games, we feel confident in our ability to win the East.
definitely
It's definitely a grind. But that's how it's been set up for us.
doubt five runs score tough
It's a tough loss, there's no doubt about it. For them to come in and score five runs with two out in the eighth, that's tough to swallow.
avoid extend far leaving pressure sweep taken team today winning
You want to come in here and sweep because you can extend your lead, but you don't want to get swept. By winning yesterday, there was a lot of pressure taken off this team as far as having to avoid a sweep today and leaving here with a one-game lead.
community excited girls great grow
It's great for the girls to grow up in a community like this. We like it a lot. We're excited about being here.
ball flight game glad nervous possible thinking time work
The whole time on the flight I'm thinking there is no possible way that this is going to work out. I'm glad I got through it because I was nervous as anything. I don't think I have been that nervous in a ball game every in my career.
good
I thought it was a really good pitch,
both catch games
I think I can still play a big role. In my mind, I'm going to catch a lot of games and we'll both get our at-bats.
ball catching felt game hard strike time today tough wild
His ball was darting in, it was darting away. It was effectively wild in the strike zone. I had a tough time today catching the ball. I hadn't had a game like that where I felt like I was going to have a hard time catching the ball.