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
He's a good defensive third baseman, and he's quick and he's got good range. Early on this spring, he wasn't moving his feet like he can, but you can see today what type of third baseman he can be.
It's too early to really know how to pitch him, and I think you saw that with our pitchers.
Domination is not even a word that's in anybody's vocabulary. This game with its twists and turns could have gone either way for the whole nine innings, but fortunately we got an early lead and held on.
We're going to have to do a better job on offense, getting guys on base early and doing some of the things we want to do,
Walking around town, I had people coming up to me just thanking me for their grandparents who were deceased that were Angel fans back in the early 1960s.
John did something that he hasn't done since last year. He would bend but not break. He was good in the early going but it got away from him.
He was a little erratic early with his cutter. He got in some hitter's counts but he came back to get some big outs.
He came out and got in a zone early and got in a nice groove. We just couldn't pressure him enough early on to make a difference.
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.
Hopefully he's gonna be able to get out here early next week and test it some more, ... and hopefully get him in the rotation next weekend.
He came in and got in the zone early and got in a groove. He made some pitches when he had to. I think we made him work for it. He found his release point. He's got great stuff.
We feel we have a good young arm going against those guys, and the only way you're going to beat pitching is to match them pitch for pitch.
We certainly set the table, but we couldn't get that hit with guys in scoring position. (Rodrigo Lopez) made some pitches to put some guys away that were on the money, and we just couldn't put pressure on him. We just couldn't get that one hit to kind of get things going.
The way he carried himself on the field, the little things he did made a difference in what his pitchers could do. He was terrific.