Mike Hargrove
Mike Hargrove
Dudley Michael Hargroveis a former Major League Baseball first baseman and manager. He is currently employed as an advisor with the Cleveland Indians. Hargrove batted and threw left-handed. He played for the Texas Rangers, San Diego Padres, and Cleveland Indians. After retiring, he went on to manage the Indians, Baltimore Orioles, and Seattle Mariners...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth26 October 1949
decision pitches sitting sixth wondering
Did he have no-hit stuff? Yeah, I think so. I was sitting there in the sixth wondering how many pitches to let him go for a no-hitter. He's young and big and strong, and he had only 83 going into the seventh. ... I'd have let him go 130 pitches. I'd like to have had that decision to make.
eddie pitches spring threw
Eddie threw more pitches in that inning than he did all spring training.
absolutely anybody expected forward starts thrown watching
The way he's thrown and the starts that he's had have been absolutely outstanding. He has been better than we really expected him to be. Like anybody else, when he's on the mound, I look forward to watching him pitch.
guys nasty running sat teeth
the thing sat up and hissed at us, with those nasty teeth showing. We had guys running out of its way.
against batting considered happen intrigued managing realm since talk unless
I've always been intrigued by Ichiro batting third. I was when I was managing against him, and I have been since I've been his manager. It's not out of the realm of possibility that it could happen (someday). There's nothing like that being considered now. And there won't be, unless I talk to Ichiro first. And that's not on the calendar.
five gave seeing throw warm wish
Seeing him throw like that gave me a warm feeling. I wish we had five more just like him.
center expected gave heck hoped jeremy
Offensively, I think we hoped for a little more out of Jeremy and I know he expected a lot more from himself. Defensively, he gave us more than we expected. He's going to get better at the plate, but he showed us he can play the heck out of center field.
borne die last night pitching three truism white
The old truism that you live and die with your pitching has been borne out the last two nights, and really the whole series. We got two really well pitched games, which we won, and (Tuesday) night was something I'd like to forget. We'll take it. If you take two out of three from the White Sox, that's pretty special.
couple rest second settled struggling throwing trouble
Felix, the first couple of innings, was struggling with his mechanics. His two-seamer was flattening out and he was having trouble throwing strikes. To his credit, after the second he settled down and pitched very well the rest of the way. Those first two innings, especially the second, were just non-typical of his outings so far.
against run situation team
You don't very often get out of a bases-loaded, nobody-out situation without a run being scored. Especially against a team like that,
betting double run steal throwing tonight tried
You don't try a double steal very often, but we tried it tonight and it worked. When you run a double steal, you're betting on them throwing through. When they don't, it makes you look awfully foolish.
discussion happened limiting saw
There was no discussion of limiting his innings. And you saw what happened to him.
career gets good guys hitting performing season september slow starters track
You see guys now who are hitting .400 who, come September or July, they're going to be hitting .200. And there are guys who are notoriously slow starters who, as the season gets going, they'll play up to their career averages. We have guys who are not performing well right now who have good track records, and they'll be there when all is said and done.
game shut
The most important inning of any game is the one after you score. You have to shut them down. We didn't shut them down.