Chase Utley
Chase Utley
Chase Cameron Utleyis an American professional baseball second baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball. A native of the Greater Los Angeles Area, he grew up in Long Beach, California, and attended UCLA. Utley played in MLB for the Philadelphia Phillies from 2003 to 2015 prior to being traded to the Dodgers. He is a six-time All-Star, won a World Series with the Phillies in 2008, and was chosen as the second baseman on the Sports Illustrated...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth17 December 1978
CityPasadena, CA
You try to take it game-to-game and keep working.
I've said this before, but going and playing with the guys that have been to the World Series, the elite players of the game, there's no harm in hanging around those guys at all.
It's good to find the barrel of the bat again.
You're going to bat so many times during a season and it's not worth getting mad about. I still get frustrated, but I try not to let the other team know that.
Hitting at the top of the order is a good thing. You get more at-bats. I'm excited to see how this develops.
I’ve talked to guys who have played for the Phillies and gone on to other organizations and the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.
Before, shortstops and second basemen were mostly defensive guys that made all the plays and didn't really hit that well. But now it's beginning to change a little bit. Now, shortstops and second basemen are very productive in terms of run producing.
It's pretty self-explanatory. If we play well, we know what our picture is. If we don't play well, we'll know what our picture is.
[Clayton Kershaw ] is intense. He's a competitor.He's extremely fun to play behind.
I figured out that there are occasions where you have to get pumped up and take charge, situations where you have to have fun and situations where you need to settle down.
I've always been taught to play the game hard. Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you just have to try not to get too high or too low.
I never want to look in the mirror and say, 'What if? What if I had run harder? What if I had dived for that groundball?'
You're not trying to hit home runs off that kind of guy, you're just trying to put the ball in play and make things happen, and I think we did a good job of that,
Any loss like that is devastating. Especially with five games to go.