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
You have to give him credit for some of it. But some of the responsibility falls on our shoulders. We're not swinging the bats very well.
What am I going to say to him? How to handle himself? Swing a bat, be successful and drive some runs in tonight. That's how I want him to handle himself. Other than that, I don't feel I have to go in and talk to him about how to handle himself on a baseball field.
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.
If somebody is hot, you reward him if the other guy is struggling a little bit. That's the nature of the game. As a manager, you have to take advantage of the guys when they are swinging the bat well.
He threw strikes, ... He hit the ball around the strike zone. He used all of his pitches today, and he was ahead of the hitters. He made them swing the bat and made pitches to get them out.
Three-and-oh. Throw the ball down the middle of the plate. You think he was swinging there?
We don't seem to be able to handle pitchers we don't know. First-time guys, we seem to struggle with them. We're just not swinging the bats very well right now.
I'm not a doctor, ... I can't tell you how long it takes to recover from what he had. But it's kind of a little sorry to accept that somebody would say on Friday or Saturday -- four days in advance -- that, 'I can't pitch on Tuesday, but I can pitch on Friday.'
I know time is running out as far as I'm concerned.
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.
I'm looking forward to when it counts to see how this team reacts. I think we'll handle it very well.
The big difference here is when you come out here on the field, you see people in the stands and they're usually rooting for you and they're gonna root for you,
This is kind of what I would say is an amazing streak, but the club doesn't amaze me because they showed early on that they have the desire, the heart and we hung in there in close ball games, but this has been kind of an unbelievable roll that we're on right now and who knows when it's going to end.
This is kind of strange -- an individual who's been as successful as he has and as consistent as he has in the American League has struggled this much and this long over the course of this season. I've never seen anything like it before in my days.