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
That is unwarranted that he got tossed. An opposition batter charges the mound and our pitcher gets tossed? That is an absolute joke.
I just know that in Southern California, the way that championship was received was absolutely along the lines of what we saw in Boston,
It is something that we would welcome, but it is not an absolute necessity, ... does not have to hit home runs to be productive. What we need is for his production to get back to where it needs to be. He is one of the premier RBI guys in the last few years and we need that to re-emerge.
It's not going to be commonplace we bang out 17 hits. But when you do, and you combine that with aggressive running, you come up with eight runs.
It's not anywhere near what he did three months ago, where he missed that much time.
The ball didn't come down where Figgy thought it would, but it certainly wasn't a routine play.
That is not necessarily a good thing and not necessarily a bad thing at this point of the season. There is a danger of a guy getting cranked up for a competition that is going to be more intense. But I don't feel there is any benefit for it, no.
Against Detroit, I don't know if he was a little psyched up and he was maybe overthrowing a little bit. Tonight, he was much more in tune early in the game and his pitches were very, very crisp.
Against any team, and particularly against a team like the Yankees, you have to finish innings. You have to finish hitters, and you have to finish innings.
None of our pitchers are in Chicago. We're going to use every pitcher we need tonight to get past tonight's game.
It's written into the fabric of baseball that with games on the line that have bearing on the race, you try and put your best lineup out there.
It's tough for Izzy. This guy worked so hard and on a lot of clubs he'd be a starting shortstop. You watch him on the practice field and see the passion he has for baseball. He loves it. It's just a bump in the road for him. He'll get healthy.
Anytime the Yankees are around, it seems like it's a more special environment. We've had some big games with the Yankees recently.
That might have been the best five starts any team could have gotten in any series.