Mike Scioscia
Mike Scioscia
Michael Lorri Sciosciais an American former Major League Baseball catcher and current manager for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. He has worked in that capacity since the 2000 season, and is currently the longest-tenured manager in Major League Baseball. As a player, Scioscia made his major league debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1980. He was selected to two All-Star Games and won two World Series over the course of his 13-year MLB career, which was spent entirely...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth27 November 1958
CityUpper Darby, PA
I don't think anything is grim in the clubhouse, ... (The players) know that once we getting going offensively this thing turns on a heartbeat.
I don't think the umpiring in this game is why we're behind 3-1.
I couldn't be in a better environment for us to achieve our goals, ... From everything from what Arte has committed to this organization, from the top down to the Minors couldn't be better. Nobody has a crystal ball, but I don't know if there is a better managerial job out there in baseball.
In this game, you have to think about making plays, you can't worry about making mistakes. At times, a guy will get thrown out, but in the bigger scheme, the bases we're going to take will far outweigh that occasional misread. And it depends on what you call a mistake. If the outfielder puts the ball right on the money, he's out by a quarter-step and it's a bang-bang play, that's not a mistake. That's baseball. If you're out by four or five steps, it's ugly, it's a misread, but in the big picture, that aggressiveness is going to help us more than the occasional blunder will hurt.
The best advice I was given if that if you want to succeed and you want to achieve, you have to learn how to handle failures.
If you want to be a leader, the first person you have to lead is yourself.
The first thing he told me was that he did not tag up and then he said he left early, ... I don't think he saw the play.
The guys who have to hit aren't on our bench, ... The guys who have to hit are already in our lineup.
The two walks and the ball in center field that dropped obviously were bigger contributors in that inning than the missed call on the check swing.
These last 48 hours have been a blur. We were fortunate to hold on.
These guys are going to hit, ... We just obviously need it to start now.
The hitter can take off, but as a catcher when an umpire calls him out, rings him up with a fist, he is out.
A muddy track is not something that works in our favor. I think we need to run the bases, we need to stay aggressive. I think whether we play tonight or tomorrow or any time this series, you're going to have a slower track just because of the wetness that you anticipate the field having.
The last month of the season I think there were a lot of similarities that started to manifest in our club that did in 2002. I think our situational hitting all of a sudden got back to where it needed to be, we're running bases well. We're going to get a chance to get into our game hopefully, and if it can emerge like it did in 2002, we have a chance to get on that roll.