Jay Gibbons
Jay Gibbons
Jay Jonathan Gibbonsis a former American professional baseball right fielder in Major League Baseball. He played college baseball at California State University, Los Angeles and in the Major Leagues for the Baltimore Orioles and Los Angeles Dodgers. He attended Mayfair High School in Lakewood, California. He is the current hitting coach for the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes of the California League...
coming excited feeling good growing guys seeing stick
It's a good feeling to stick around and know you're going to be with these guys for a while. I'm excited about seeing the young guys coming up and growing with you.
coming couple felt hook threw
He was coming right at us. He was challenging us. I felt we let him off the hook a couple of times, but he threw pretty good.
coming gave pitches plenty
He was coming right at us. He gave us plenty of pitches to hit, but it didn't happen.
managing past
In a lot of ways, he was managing in the past. He just didn't have the title.
good needed reason
It's something that probably needed to be done. It's illegal, and it's good we put it in there. There's no reason not to have it in there.
april ball traveling
The ball was traveling well tonight. Usually in April it doesn't go anywhere. But 75 degrees, the ball was jumping.
easy hit looking pitch recognize
It's an easy pitch to hit if you're looking for it or recognize it.
hard stretch
It's hard not to think here we go again. It's been that kind of stretch for us.
doubling guy hurting public ten
Doubling it is good. I think 10 is a little light. Ten you can get away with as a team. You can do without a guy for 10 days, but 20, you're kind of hurting your ballclub, too. Not just your own public scrutiny, but you're hurting your ballclub to win.
clutch double game guy hit mess mind pitches second strikes thrown throws uses
First time, yes. Second time, no. He uses that too much, in the back of your mind you know he has that, it's one of those pitches you know you can double clutch and still hit it. If he hasn't thrown it all game and he has two strikes on a guy and he throws it up there, it's going to mess a guy up.
figure team
First I've got to figure out what team I'm on,
asking national news reporters seen
We see reporters that we have never seen before. This is national news now. They're all asking the same question.
reporters seen
We see reporters that we have never seen before,
everybody fine normal seemed self worried
Everybody was worried after the stroke, but he seemed fine and was his normal self.