David Eckstein
David Eckstein
David Mark Ecksteinis a retired American professional baseball player who was an infielder in Major League Baseball for ten seasons. He played college baseball for the University of Florida, and has played professionally for the Anaheim Angels, St. Louis Cardinals, Toronto Blue Jays, Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres. Eckstein won the 2006 World Series Most Valuable Player Award...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth20 January 1975
CitySanford, FL
body except focusing situations type
I just feel very comfortable with two strikes, ... It's one of those situations where you don't want to do anything wrong, but you want to be able to sit back and relax. The one thing I don't want to do is get any kind of jumpiness, any type of anything, into my body except focusing on the baseball.
ball finally focus good ground key might seem time toughest
That is the key. The toughest thing sometimes is getting that ground ball, and they seem to get the ground ball. They might give up a hit. They might give up a walk. But they finally get that key ground ball when it's time to focus in. It's a good thing.
fun gets opportunity throw
It never gets old having the opportunity to throw some champagne. This is so much fun.
bottom draws gets gives goes great job opportunity provide
The bottom of our lineup has done such a great job to provide opportunities, getting on base. The one inning when Nunie had a great at-bat, goes 3-2, draws the walk, and then Carp goes up there and gets another walk, that's with two outs there. And that gives me the opportunity to do something. That's a lot of fun.
beat box confidence knew win woke
That's when we really knew we could beat the best. That woke up everything for us. Confidence doesn't show up in the box score, but it's so important. After that, we knew we could win it all.
pressure
That's what we try to do, put pressure on the other pitcher.
double key matter plays turn winning
Double plays are key to winning championships, ... No matter the situation, we try to turn everything.
matter score turn
Don't turn the channel, ... no matter what the score is.
albert
It was one of those things that you just find a way to get Albert up,
against baseball beat believe club funny great hard
It's one of those things. Baseball is a funny game. Every club can beat any club. They come out and play great against us. It's hard to believe to see where they're standing. They've got a great club.
emphasis run
It's the emphasis on one run (in the NL),
fans hate playing raise takes turn
It's like when I was playing in the Angels-Oakland games. That's not a rivalry. When fans hate the other fans, that's what makes it a big-time rivalry. These are big games. If we keep doing it over and over again, we can turn it into that, but it takes the fans to raise it to that level.
closer definitely difficult gets park pick
It's a difficult park to pick up the ball, especially during the day. It's something that if we can get used to it, it will definitely be to our advantage. Especially once it gets closer to 3:30 or 4 o'clock, it gets more difficult.
bunch dislike good hard
They're a good bunch of guys. It's hard to dislike them.