Manny Acta
Manny Acta
Manuel Elias Actais a former professional baseball manager who is currently the third base coach for the Seattle Mariners, and formerly a broadcast analyst for ESPN and ESPN Deportes. He has served as manager for the Washington Nationals and the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball. In the Dominican Winter League, he managed the Tigres del Licey from 2003–2005, including leading them to victory at the 2004 Caribbean Series. Acta managed the Dominican Republic team at the 2006 World Baseball...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth11 January 1969
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I don't know Soriano as an outfielder. He is here to play second base.
believe biggest chosen coaches coming country good life match players rest
I believe this is the biggest recognition I'm going to get for the rest of my life in my country. Coming from a country with so many good players and so many coaches and being chosen to do this, nothing will match this.
baseball believe classic people playing remind talent
I believe that part of what the World Classic did was remind people that baseball talent comes from all over the world. There are a lot of people playing this game.
game lose nobody round second
Nobody said it was going to be easy. But you can lose one game in the second round and still advance.
feeling gut
I have a gut feeling he's going to pitch.
credit held offense
You have to give all the credit to their pitching, which held our offense to only one run. They just flat-out outplayed us.
game island million others soul spread watched
This will be a game watched by every Dominican soul, the 8 million we have on the island and all the others spread around the world.
everybody happy hit supposed venezuela
We're the ones who are supposed to hit everybody around, but Venezuela didn't let us do that. We showed our hearts, and we are very happy to be in the finals.
fantastic guys happy hitters pitchers playing second
It's over, the second round, we went through it, and I feel fantastic because most of the guys now are in playing shape. The pitchers have been able to go out there more than once, and the hitters had enough at-bats, so I'm happy for the guys.
break came daniel deserves game pitching scoring several staff
Daniel deserves all the credit. We had several scoring opportunities to break the game open. We didn't do it but our pitching staff came through.
nice
It's nice to have depth, and that's what we have.
delayed injury join later met pitch ready talk team
It's a shame, but Pedro won't pitch in the Classic. I met with Pedro to talk about this; he did everything he could, and he was ready to join the team later in the competition, but his injury delayed his preparations.
baseball good group humble love seem short special stay tournament
It's a short tournament and we have to stay humble about it. It's baseball and anything can happen. We feel very good about the group we got here. We actually have the group we wanted and they seem to have the special love to play for their country.
appreciate blood full pitches
It was full of blood. He only had about 10 more pitches before he was done, so we made the change. We appreciate his effort.