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
He's been playing great. I think he's got to be a candidate. With the type of year he's having, you'd have to consider him.
He didn't really pitch deep into the game against the Yankees. He's done it before this year, and he came out in flying colors so we're confident he's going to get to a point in his game where we have some of the arms in the bullpen we're going to get to.
He called him out, and that's what's disappointing. When he rings him up with a fist, he's out.
I'd be surprised if Jon missed 12 pitches all night. His first-strike ratio was incredible. Those guys are horses. We have to do a better job of getting to them early.
He'll be fresher and rested for Game 5 if we need to go that route. He's much better off in the slot we have him.
Our bullpen stepped up in a big way. We were fortunate to get out of the sixth inning with no damage. Whether we won or lost today is not going to matter in the long run, but with the win today we can carry our momentum forward into the next games.
That's a tough lineup, and you have to make pitches in good locations to get them out. I think he got a little too fine in some counts.
There's no question what he does for a lineup. He can make your lineup deeper. It's not going to relate to 12 runs every night, but tonight we got some runners on and drove them in. Vlad was in the middle of everything.
Domination is not even a word that's in anybody's vocabulary,
John looks ready to go. He's one of the top pitchers in our league. He had quite a year.
I don't think there's any way to sugarcoat it, our offense has been soft.
Our bullpen came through. Kelvim shined the whole night. Kelvim made some big pitches and gave us a big lift.
The last month of the season I think there were a lot of similarities that started to manifest in our club that did in 2002. I think our situational hitting all of a sudden got back to where it needed to be, we're running bases well. We're going to get a chance to get into our game hopefully, and if it can emerge like it did in 2002, we have a chance to get on that roll.
Our starting rotation has been the heartbeat of our club,