Ron Gardenhire
Ron Gardenhire
Ronald Clyde Gardenhireis a former Major League Baseball shortstop for the New York Mets and former manager of the Minnesota Twins. He currently serves as a special assistant to the General Manager of the Minnesota Twins, Terry Ryan...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth24 October 1957
CityButzbach, Germany
flip people
It's wall-to-wall people here now. On the flip side, it's Florida. It's gorgeous.
awhile brought everyday good kept missed needs rather sit year
He needs to go down and get everyday at-bats rather than sit up here on the bench. He's missed a year-plus of baseball. We brought him up here and kept him up awhile to see where he's at. He's doing pretty good after being out a year of baseball.
baker tough
I thought we pitched well enough to win. Baker battled through some tough jams and made some big pitches, but we didn't get it done offensively.
baker base breaking came chance fastball finally gave good great high innings runs score
Baker was fantastic. He used his breaking ball, his changeup and had the high fastball working. He located pretty good. He gave us a great chance to win. It's unfortunate we couldn't score enough runs for him. Rincon came in and had two good innings for us, got out of the one, which was huge. Then we finally come up with the big base hit.
bake stock whacked zone
Bake just didn't have it today. He was up in the zone and got whacked around, and they scored and scored and scored. We're not going to put too much stock into it, other than it was disappointing.
fighting fights-and-fighting figure help
He's fighting everything. He's really pressing. We need to figure out how to help him get through this thing.
anywhere flip four games guys health played top worth
I think we're fine. Health-wise we're not where we need to be. We're 7-11 and played without our top two guys (Shannon Stewart and Luis Castillo) for four games now. ... Of course, we haven't played worth a flip on the road, and that's what's disturbing. You're not going to get anywhere doing that.
common prove tells
He's pitched very well. He hasn't done anything to prove to us that he shouldn't be (in the rotation). I think common sense tells you pretty much where it is.
call hesitate powerful quality season
He's not only a powerful hitter, he's a quality person. We know what he can do, and if we need him this season we won't hesitate to call him up.
brad send time whatever win
Most of the time you send Brad back out there, but this isn't most of the time. We're going to try to do whatever we have to do to win games.
aura bring certain fun
It's always fun to play the Yankees. They bring a certain aura to the ballpark.
nice relax
It was nice to get a lead, relax a little bit, and get Radke some runs.
clubhouse nice smiles
It was nice to see some smiles in the clubhouse for once.
coming friday fun guys night situation
It was a big situation like this, these guys coming into town, a big Friday night and he withstood everything. That was fun to see.