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
desire everybody guys prepared saw themselves
Everybody who had the desire to play prepared themselves for this tournament. Our guys saw enough pitches. They had enough at-bats. No excuses.
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.
everybody fell good hit lack people pitching tournament
I think our pitching was great. Actually things kind of flip-flopped a little bit. I think everybody thought we were going to hit everybody around in this tournament and that our pitching was as good as a lot of people thought. Our pitching did a very good job, and we just fell short. It wasn't lack of pitching at all.
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I think everybody in baseball knew, even before the All-Star break last year, that we were going to play this Baseball Classic, and everybody that had the desire to play prepared themselves to play for this tournament. Yes, they didn't have 100 at-bats or whatever before this, but we got all the way to the seventh game. We played two rounds, the guys saw enough pitches, they had enough at-bats. There are no excuses.
chance everybody guys happy performance
I'm very happy with the performance of the guys here. And everybody had a chance to play.
allowing baseball everybody forgetting players ready regular responsibility spring training trying whether win
If you're going to get hurt, you're going to get hurt, whether you're in spring training or the World Baseball Classic. But I want everybody to understand, we're not going out there only trying to win and forgetting about our players. We have a responsibility to the organizations that are allowing the players to play, and we're also going to try to get them ready for the regular season.
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Back at home, everybody always thought that David was going to be big time. When he was in Minnesota, a lot of people thought that he was going to be a productive hitter there. But he's moved on to a bigger market and he's done what he's done, and he deserves everything that he's getting.
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.
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.
felt guys leagues playing ups
We felt relieved. These guys are professional. They've been playing in the big leagues for years and they're used to ups and downs.
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We will using the line up that you saw out there today. It's not time to make big changes. That line up won the last to games for us.
second
I don't know Soriano as an outfielder. He is here to play second base.
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.