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
(Lackey) wasn't as sharp as we've seen him, ... He threw a lot of pitches early, and then he settled in. I thought he kept his composure, and he pitched. You look at the linescore and see seven scoreless innings and say he breezed, but it wasn't easy.
It is more awkward for Orlando, because as a shortstop, you round the ball differently. But we've run that shift enough and he has made that play.
If you look at it purely from the organization's standpoint, we'd like Ervin to keep progressing with our catchers, but this is very important: We're not standing in his way.
It's not like one guy is getting the hits. It's like every single guy is swinging the bat all at once.
For him to contribute offensively, it is going to be huge for our club. I think we're going to depend on Juan.
It's too early to really know how to pitch him, and I think you saw that with our pitchers.
It was a swing, our catcher caught it, Doug Hennings called him out. Somewhere a long the line because the guy ran to first base he altered the call.
It was a swing. Our catcher caught it. Doug Eddings called him out and somewhere along the line, because the guy ran to first base, (Eddings) altered the call, ... When an umpire calls a guy out and you're the catcher, and I've caught my share of them, he's out. He didn't call swing, he rang him up with his fist and said 'You're out.'
Against any team, and particularly against a team like the Yankees, you have to finish innings. You have to finish hitters, and you have to finish innings.
Their focus and direction in spring doesn't change because we signed Jeff Weaver. There are always guys that will have to step up.
It's not going to be commonplace we bang out 17 hits. But when you do, and you combine that with aggressive running, you come up with eight runs.
It's not anywhere near what he did three months ago, where he missed that much time.
I think we were all surprised at the level he came into camp at compared to where he was when we saw him in October. There was a tremendous amount of work that was needed, and he did it. He's in the shape he needs to be in.
I think it started with the leadoff walk to Cora and the walk to Damon. Those two are things that you can't do against the Red Sox.