Frank Robinson
Frank Robinson
Frank Robinsonis an American former Major League Baseballoutfielder and manager. He played for five teams from 1956 to 1976, and became the only player to win league MVP honors in both the National and American Leagues. He won the Triple Crown, was a member of two teams that won the World Series, and amassed the fourth-most career home runs at the time of his retirement. Robinson was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth31 August 1935
CityBeaumont, TX
CountryUnited States of America
I might be more reasonable with it. There will be a certain time when the things go off. At a certain time, you have to start preparing yourself for the ballgame and think about the people around you.
To me that isn't arguing balls and strikes, is it?
Three-and-oh. Throw the ball down the middle of the plate. You think he was swinging there?
Yeah, I can appreciate it. You just make a slight mistake with him and don't get the ball exactly where you want it, he makes you pay.
We felt like every time he took the ball he was going to go nine innings, no matter what. I really admire him for that.
Usually in a game like this you hope for one good shot at a pitcher like Pedro. It wasn't whether they had good at-bats, they just weren't productive even if they hit the ball hard. We had the people you wanted at the plate in the order you wanted and expected to be productive, but we didn't get it.
We have to get people on base. That's what we have to do. We have to get people on base and we have to get the big base hit. We're not doing any of that right now. We also have to start driving the ball to the gaps -- doubles. And we have to start our offense early in the inning rather than waiting for one or two outs. Those are the things we have to do and then things will fall into place. We will score runs. We will have the opportunity to score runs. We will have the opportunity to drive runs in.
He is doing the things that we've asked him to do last year and tried to get him to do and he is doing them now and you have to say, it's two games but it's two games in a row he did those things. If he continues to do that, that's what we want from him and that's what we have to have from him if he is going to make this ball club.
He hit the ball so far that I lost sight of it. Everybody is saying that the ball is still going. It was very impressive.
He can steal a run for us here and there, put pressure on the defense, take the extra base and put pressure on the defense. That's what we felt he could bring and that's what we were hoping for him to do if he made the ball club.
He was decent in a couple of spots. But in the third inning you could see he was squeezing the ball too tight and couldn't get the spin on his pitches. I wouldn't call it a bad outing, but a short one.
You have to understand, number one, the guys that are out there, those people are not going to be out there. We didn't catch the ball in the wind, we didn't make good decisions on plays, we didn't execute fundamentally.
You don't see too many get up that high. That was a tremendous play. When the ball was hit, I though it was a base hit.
There's a lot of camaraderie on this ball club already. In spring training it's been a good clubhouse. Believing in themselves and playing with excitement, I think that all comes from winning. I think this team has that ability to do that, to come together as a team.