Mike Scioscia
Mike Scioscia
Michael Lorri Sciosciais an American former Major League Baseball catcher and current manager for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. He has worked in that capacity since the 2000 season, and is currently the longest-tenured manager in Major League Baseball. As a player, Scioscia made his major league debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1980. He was selected to two All-Star Games and won two World Series over the course of his 13-year MLB career, which was spent entirely...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth27 November 1958
CityUpper Darby, PA
We kept waiting for him to show the wear and tear,
The best advice I was given if that if you want to succeed and you want to achieve, you have to learn how to handle failures.
In this game, you have to think about making plays, you can't worry about making mistakes. At times, a guy will get thrown out, but in the bigger scheme, the bases we're going to take will far outweigh that occasional misread. And it depends on what you call a mistake. If the outfielder puts the ball right on the money, he's out by a quarter-step and it's a bang-bang play, that's not a mistake. That's baseball. If you're out by four or five steps, it's ugly, it's a misread, but in the big picture, that aggressiveness is going to help us more than the occasional blunder will hurt.
To be blunt, we have to stop hanging breaking balls to him.
When you're not swinging the bats well, you look flat.
When you're not swinging the bats well you look flat. Our club was ready to go. We had a lot of energy.
We had to pitch our butts off the whole series. We didn't have a lot of options at that point, but we had a lot of confidence in Ervin. Ervin Santana 's the story tonight.
We had to pitch well tonight. John did a great job, along with Scot and Frankie. We got some big two-out hits, which were important.
We are at the point of the year where if you push him back, it could mean one less start at the end of the year. We need to make sure that he can pitch. If we do push him back, we want to make sure we have the matchups we need at the end of the season.
This win was a good win for the team and gave us a big lift. We have to focus on winning from here on out.
We're good at situational baseball. And running the bases well is more important offensively than anything we do.
We absorbed non-production from some guys the best we could,
To move Erstad, it would have to make the whole lineup better. It would be a significant move. You would expect significant results.
We're going to need Tim and it was good to see him square one up.