Adrian Beltre
Adrian Beltre
Adrián Beltré Pérezis a Dominican professional baseball third baseman for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball. He is known for his prodigious defensive and offensive capabilities, being selected four times each for the Rawlings Gold Glove Award, Silver Slugger Award, and MLB All-Star Game. He bats and throws right-handed...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth7 April 1979
CitySanto Domingo, Dominican Republic
defense games hard paid plays pride small work
The way I'm hitting, I'd better make those plays. This year, I'm getting paid for my defense. I work hard at it, I take pride in it. In games like this, small plays make a difference.
hard listen needed truth
Everything he said was true. It's not hard to listen to the truth. It's something we needed to hear.
moves wear
Don't like them, ... I'm not comfortable with them. When you move, it moves around. I never wear one.
hurt next short team tied
To me, it was just something different. If Ojeda was hurt, I was up to do it. If we had tied the game, I was going to play short the next inning ... just something the team needed.
matter
It doesn't matter how old you are; if you can play, you can play, ... He's something. He does it every day.
broken feeling
I thought it was broken at first. I've got the feeling back in it now, so I know it's going to be OK.
cameras couple frankie frustrated good guys taken understand
Guys get frustrated like Frankie did, and I understand that, ... If it had taken place out of sight, that would have been one thing. But there were cameras there. There was no way it was going to end good like that, so something had to be done. And it wasn't just me. It was a couple of guys.
good isolate last season
Had a pretty good season if you can isolate it from last year.
care clip frankie guess looked room saw turn
Frankie called my room and told me to turn on ESPN, ... If all you saw was that one clip they had and nothing else, I guess it looked like a fight. That's OK. I don't care what they say.
career four hit third worst
If they'd hit another grounder to me, I'd have had four errors. This is the worst day of my career at third base.
against coming future game hall knew pitcher
When we knew this game was coming we thought it would be something special, and it was. You have a Hall of Famer against a young pitcher who is something special. In 10-15 years we may look back at this game and say it was a Hall of Famer against a future Hall of Famer.
bad certain crushing good hit pitch
It's not just us. He's crushing everybody. We try to pitch him a certain way, but he's a real good hitter. He'll hit good pitches, he'll hit bad pitches.
held physical
It's not a physical thing; my body's held up fine,
pitching
It's going to be harder. ... They have more pitching in the playoffs, the bullpens are better, so it's going to be harder, ... But we still believe.