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
allow enter focus negative past point thoughts
It got to the point where we all had been through it. The thing you do is not focus past today. You don't allow negative thoughts to enter your mind.
against behind fell glad good stuff win
(Cappy) had pretty good stuff but he fell back behind and you can't do that against St.Louis. We're glad we could get the win for him.
ball batting came corey finally hold practice smoked three took
Corey came in, got off the plane, got dressed, took batting practice and smoked the ball two or three times. He finally got a hold of one.
people three waiting
I don't know why people want to think it's a curse. We've been waiting three years for this.
asked defense hard played worked
He's done everything we've asked him to. He's worked very hard on his defense and played very well defensively.
chance
I thought we had a chance after that.
ball tough win within
That was a tough play but it was within (Weeks') reach. It's a play, if you're going to win the ball game, that's got to be made.
chance given goal hudson less runs three today
Hudson is 83-4 when given a four-run lead. Our goal today was to keep it to three runs or less to give us a chance to win.
came clean foot good
Kolb came in and had a clean inning. It was good to get Kolb off on the right foot - he's going to be a big part of our bullpen.
came easy facing formal league life major second
That was big for him, to go out in more of a formal situation, facing another Major League team. The second inning he came out with easy life on his fastball. You could see he was really getting into it.
hard mac trying
It's hard to do what Mac was trying to do,
against best compete count finds five great pitcher roger runs scoring stuff time ways
You don't really count on scoring five runs against Roger Clemens. He didn't have great stuff but the thing about that kind of pitcher is that he finds ways to compete even when he doesn't have his best stuff. Any time you beat, you've done something.
behind damage fell good limited needed outside pitches stuff
He had pretty good stuff but he fell behind too much, ... But he made big pitches when he needed to and really limited the damage outside of the four-run inning.