Frank Robinson
Frank Robinson
Frank Robinsonis an American former Major League Baseballoutfielder and manager. He played for five teams from 1956 to 1976, and became the only player to win league MVP honors in both the National and American Leagues. He won the Triple Crown, was a member of two teams that won the World Series, and amassed the fourth-most career home runs at the time of his retirement. Robinson was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth31 August 1935
CityBeaumont, TX
CountryUnited States of America
Usually in a game like this you hope for one good shot at a pitcher like Pedro. It wasn't whether they had good at-bats, they just weren't productive even if they hit the ball hard. We had the people you wanted at the plate in the order you wanted and expected to be productive, but we didn't get it.
Usually in a game like that you hope for one good shot against a guy like that and we got it. With the bases loaded and nobody out you expect to get something out of it. We couldn't have asked for anything better with our heart of the order coming up. We had the people we wanted coming to the plate.
We're doing it for the season. We didn't ask him to do it for today, that's not the answer we wanted.
Would it be fair to put him out there ahead of these other guys who have played those positions for quite some time?
We're still not going to be a juggernaut. We're not going to be where we feel like we can outscore teams on a daily basis.
We have to get people on base. That's what we have to do. We have to get people on base and we have to get the big base hit. We're not doing any of that right now. We also have to start driving the ball to the gaps -- doubles. And we have to start our offense early in the inning rather than waiting for one or two outs. Those are the things we have to do and then things will fall into place. We will score runs. We will have the opportunity to score runs. We will have the opportunity to drive runs in.
We struggled tonight and it never comes easy. The pitching did a good job for us tonight.
We struggled through it, ... Tomorrow, I'm back in the bullpen.
We struggled through it, and nothing ever comes easy for us.
We started making subtle changes during the course of that (1988) season and got prepared for '89,
We'll see what Church can bring to us. He is not swinging the bat very well down there but you never know from down there to up here. We feel like these two moves might help us get going.
Yes I do. This is a great game. This is America's game. And we have to get Afro-American people involved in that again,
With us right now, you can give us 20 walks and it'll still be a 2-1 or 3-2 game.
We know why we came up short today and hopefully we can take advantage of 12 hits and score more runs the next time we get 12 hits. I hope it's not August.