Carlos Lee
Carlos Lee
Carlos Noriel Leeis a former professional baseball first baseman and left fielder who played in Major League Baseball from 1999–2012 with the Chicago White Sox, Milwaukee Brewers, Texas Rangers, Houston Astros and Miami Marlins. He had 17 career grand slams, ranking him seventh in MLB history...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth20 June 1976
CityAguadulce, Panama
patient pitches trying wait
I've been very patient at the plate. I'm trying to see a lot of pitches and wait for the right one.
ball everybody knows laid pitches seeing today
Everybody knows he's going to hit. He's seeing the ball better. He laid off some pitches today and that's what it's going to take.
baseball
That's baseball, you know. It happens. It's a first for me.
closest olympics playing pride
I didn't get to play in the Olympics so this is the closest I can get. There's a lot of pride playing for your country.
guys joking lead tired trying
I told the guys that now I'm tired and now I got to lead off the inning. They were joking about it. I wasn't trying to do too much. Basically, in my mind, I was trying to get on base.
ball far good paid season strikes success today trying
I've got two strikes on me and I'm just trying to put the ball in play. I've been having some pretty good success so far this season and today it really paid off.
playing seem teams tough
The better teams are, the better we seem to play. We're playing the tough teams now and we're playing good.
capable eight fun runs scoring team
It's a lot more fun when you go out there and you know you've got a team that's capable of scoring eight to 10 runs every game.
came happiness happy hit lost protect
It never came out of the light. I lost it all the way. I'm just happy it hit me in the head. I put my glove up there to protect myself.
ball carrying fly hit took
When he first hit it, I thought it was going to just be a fly ball, but it took off. It was (going to be) a homer. It was out. Same with Edmonds. The ball just took off. The ball was carrying out.
against belong confidence goes great leagues time
They haven't been intimidated. Every time they go to the plate, their confidence is enough that they feel like they belong here. That's great because the only thing that goes against you when you get to the big leagues is fear.
excuse lit
He doesn't want to make any excuses. If he got lit up, he's going to say that he got lit up, and he's not going to say it was because of this or that. That's the way he is.
couple momentum quite strike
I had fouled a couple down the line, and you strike out after that quite often. I just didn't want to strike out and wanted to keep the momentum going.
baseball countries fans happiness happy league nice opportunity players team together
I'm happy to be here. I can only do so much, so it will take the whole team to (win the WBC). It's nice for baseball to see fans from different countries having the opportunity to see big league players together on one team.