Ned Yost
Ned Yost
Edgar Frederick "Ned" Yost IIIis a former Major League Baseball catcher and current manager of the Kansas City Royals. He previously managed the Milwaukee Brewers, and played for the Brewers, Texas Rangers, and Montreal Expos...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth19 August 1955
CityEureka, CA
ben chip everybody guys help pick slack
Everybody has to pick up the slack with Ben out. All the guys have to chip in and help out.
ball clean contact count early good guys hit move pitch talk
That's something that we talk about every day: You pitch to contact with your good stuff. That's what you look for. You want guys to have good, quick, clean innings. You want to go out there, let them hit the ball early in the count to one of your defenders, get the out and move on.
class league national needed win yesterday
That's the class of the league over there, the class of the National League for 14 years. And we did everything we needed to do to win this game, and yesterday and the day before.
against alone class home last league series top won
That's the class of the league over there. It's been the class of the league or in the top class of the league the last 14 years. We've never even won a series at home against them, let alone a sweep.
board lay runs seven
That's one thing about the Cardinals, they're not going to lay down and die. Even after we scored seven runs I wasn't comfortable. They can put runs on the board in a hurry.
great huge timely win
It's a great feeling, ... A lot of timely hits. It's a huge win for us.
opportunity runs score
I told him I didn't want to take him out of the game. I wanted to give him an opportunity to get through the inning so we could score some runs for him and get him his 18th win. I told him to get after him and be aggressive.
good
I told him he'll never know how good he can be if he doesn't go out and try it.
ability anybody call guys home losers straight winter
I told our guys it's very important for us to go home this winter and not give anybody the ability to call us losers again. They've been called that for 12 straight years.
ball hit last opposite pierre
It nicked off his glove. With two strikes, we play in on Pierre on the opposite way anyway. About the last thing he will do is hit a ball the opposite way over an outfielder's head.
defined helps
It really helps to have defined roles, and we don't really have that now,
double surprised turn
It really surprised me that they were able to turn (the double play). I didn't think they had a chance.
robin tried
I tried to set Robin up as much as I could.
bit messes pitching
It's a little bit (strange), if you let it be. If you look at it as pitching infrequently, it messes you up. You keep yourself ready.