Dusty Baker
Dusty Baker
Johnnie B. "Dusty" Baker, Jr.is an American Major League Baseball manager and former player. He is currently the manager for the Washington Nationals. He enjoyed a 19-year career as a hard-hitting outfielder, primarily with the Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Dodgers. He helped the Dodgers to pennants in 1977 and 1978 and to the championship in 1981. He then enjoyed a 20-year career as a manager with the San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, and now Washington Nationals. He...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth15 June 1949
CityRiverside, CA
CountryUnited States of America
It wouldn't be the worst thing to get rained out today. It's hard to root against the water they need here.
I understand how they feel. I was sitting there last year seeing things I haven't seen since junior high school. I completely agree with them.
Duke was masterful. That's what beat us. It looked like Duke was fading some, we had some action, but we couldn't get that big hit.
There's progress. He's going to try to push it a little bit this week to find out exactly where he is. Hopefully, he'll be on the field doing some fielding and throwing. He's doing some light running. The running part is the difficult part. He's working around the clock.
Right now, we're very satisfied with where he is. If something was to happen with his knee, this was prime time to have it happen.
Pressure is what you put on yourself. You can't do anything about what the Sox did. And you can't do anything about the last year of your contract.
Probably not. Once you hurt something badly, you know how to pace yourself. Is that helping his cause? You don't know. He really hasn't had a situation yet where he has had the need to go full-out.
Or maybe before, who knows? It's how he feels. He's not going to go out there and embarrass himself. You can count on that. I'm just glad we got him.
We didn't know when he was going to be back in the first place. This is just a bump in the road.
We didn't just give him the job. He earned it.
We didn't help ourselves. We had some chances. It's very aggravating to leave those runners out there. That was the ballgame.
We didn't help ourselves. We had some chances, ... It's very aggravating to leave those runners out there. That was the ballgame.
We had Roger in trouble a couple of times, but we managed only one run. Roger knows how to pitch, and he knows how to win.
We wanted him to get that victory, but we needed it badly. He didn't get it, but he gave it to us.