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
There's no way you could've asked more of him,
I want to get him in the lineup, I want to give us the best chance we can to win, ... Watching him have a couple of good at-bats, watching him field ground balls and things, I think he'll be all right there. I've been told he can play shortstop, so it's not really foreign to him. All I'm asking him to do is make the routine plays.
Usually in a game like this you're hopeful for one good shot at a pitcher like Pedro. And we got that in the sixth inning. We couldn't ask for any better chance than we had there, with the people we had coming to the plate. We got nothing out of 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.
I thought overall it was a very good year. We had a good first half and a terrible second half. In spring training, if you asked people what would you be happy with, I think they would have said they would be happy with a .500 record.
He's doing it for the season. I didn't ask him to do it for today. That wasn't the answer I wanted. This is for the season.
He is doing the things that we've asked him to do last year and tried to get him to do and he is doing them now and you have to say, it's two games but it's two games in a row he did those things. If he continues to do that, that's what we want from him and that's what we have to have from him if he is going to make this ball club.
I hope that he will take it from there and play the way he's capable of playing. Run the ball out. That's all. I don't think that's asking too much.
He pitched very well. You couldn't ask for anything more. He should have got out of the first inning with 16 pitches with a zero up on the board. After that, he went about his job. He did pitch. He didn't throw.
I know this kid. He has never asked for more than one day off when he has thrown a lot. For him to say that he is hurting, he has got to be hurting.
These guys have to think about their futures and injuries. That's the game today. With this move, you'd want them to mentally accept it and want to do it. That's why I want them to ask me.
You can't ask for anything more. He should have been out of the first inning with 16 pitches and a zero up on the board.
The kid pitched very, very well. You couldn't ask for any more. Very impressive, the way he pitched. He deserves another shot.