Jeff Pentland
Jeff Pentland
Jeffrey William Pentlandis an American baseball coach. He has coached in college baseball and Major League Baseball...
built challenge good help people rome
Rome can't be built in a day and I know there's been a lot of good people here before. It's a challenge for me certainly. Hopefully, I can help and I can make a difference.
energy execution good middle process
In the middle we weren't very good today. They didn't particularly have a good day, but it's just one day out of all these. I thought the energy was there. The thought process was there, but the execution was not.
ball good hitting left sign
It's a really good sign that he's hitting. He left hitting the ball pretty good. He was hitting it long ... and far.
attack call couple days deal defensive fun goes good last obviously pitcher pitching players question saw scoring starting stay urgency
The last couple days I saw some frustration in our players because they want to win. But they call it offense. You have to stay on the attack and not be defensive up there. It's no fun not scoring runs, no question about that. There's kind of a sense of urgency sometimes when a pitcher goes through you that quickly. But obviously they have good starting pitching and we're going to have to deal with it because they're in our division.
bring good learned time
We're very good friends. But essentially I learned a long time ago, you need to do things your way. If it happens, so be it. If it doesn't, they'll probably bring in another guy.
ability gather individual job offense rebound team ways
We've just got to rebound from this situation. We've got a lot of ability here, and we've got a long ways to go. We've got to gather up as a team, because it's a team offense and it's not any one individual that's going to get the job done.
balls god goes guys notice start stay strike swinging team
When a team goes through what we're going through right now, we can't go up there and get wild. We have to stay in the strike zone. When a team goes bad, the first thing you notice is guys start swinging at balls that God can't hit.
balls god goes notice start swinging team wild
When a team goes bad, the first thing you notice is they get a little wild and start swinging at balls that God can't hit.
god pitches starting stay swing
We're starting to swing at pitches that God couldn't hit. We have to stay with our approach, and we've been getting away from it at times.
amazes
He just amazes me with what he can do.
guy guys hit run
You have to be able to run well in the No. 2 spot. With Ichiro on base, the No. 2 guy will take pitches, so he's going to have to be able to hit well with two strikes. I think we've got guys who can do that.
jeremy reed
We made a lot of progress. I'm not one to put expectations on people, but I think you're going to see a different Jeremy Reed this year.
biggest guys hear successes
Sometimes the biggest successes aren't the guys you hear the most about.
ability becomes close early focused game gotten guys line nine shown
Sometimes early the guys aren't focused as much, and with the game on the line it becomes more intense. I think we've shown the ability when the game is close and late, and our at-bats have gotten better. We'd like to keep that going for nine innings, but we haven't done that.