Charlie Manuel
Charlie Manuel
Charles Fuqua Manuel, Jr.is an American senior advisor for the Philadelphia Phillies, and a former professional baseball outfielder, coach and manager in Major League Baseballand Nippon Professional Baseball. During his playing career, he appeared over parts of six MLB seasons for the Minnesota Twins and Los Angeles Dodgers before playing another six seasons in NPB with the Yakult Swallows and Kintetsu Buffaloes. Over four successive seasons in NBP, he hit at least .312 with 37 home runs each season and...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth4 January 1944
CityNorthfolk, WV
I think we're out on a limb right now, hanging over a cliff, and we're trying to find a way to get back.
There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table.
We're getting good balls to hit. And we're not missing them.
You know what? We just stunk up the joint. We definitely can put this one behind us.
We won the series. Hopefully that will be good enough. We just have to keep winning.
Any time you see a rookie who comes into the league, whether it's a hitter or a pitcher, and he does something, it's very rare, ... Any time you are successful like that, it's very special.
That's a tough base on balls. He had confidence is getting his curve over. He missed with it, and that's a big walk.
When (right-hander) Lidge is on the mound, throwing 90 miles-per-hour sliders, he eats righties up, ... We needed a base hit there. We didn't need a home run. Chavez puts the ball in play. The more I thought about it, more I realized I couldn't have done much different to get Howard up on the righty (in the seventh).
As long as we're in it, we're in it. We just have to stay after it for the next 12 days.
A big hit there. Then we could have made things interesting.
The more you face certain pitchers, the more comfortable you're going to feel, and you're getting to get a better idea of what they're trying to do. Sometimes it's that much easier.
There?s still time. If (the Astros) win 12 straight games (to close the season), then they damn sure deserve it.
Ryan Howard is legit. And he's more than just a power hitter, too. He's capable of hitting for a high average, he's capable of hitting the ball to all fields ... he's done everything we wanted him to do, everything we asked him to do.