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
We're not as crisp in areas that we need to be in. One thing is pitching. We have a couple of things where pitchers have gotten into their starts and they've been a little bit erratic and getting into deep counts. That is where it starts, with pitching.
The only way you can beat Oakland is with good pitching. You've got to match them pitch by pitch.
Our bullpen came through. Kelvim shined the whole night. Kelvim made some big pitches and gave us a big lift.
I think he looks very smooth back there, and it's obvious that he works well with the pitching staff. He's mobile, he's got a quick release, and I think his arm is solid.
John looks ready to go. He's one of the top pitchers in our league. He had quite a year.
That's a tough lineup, and you have to make pitches in good locations to get them out. I think he got a little too fine in some counts.
(Lackey) wasn't as sharp as we've seen him, ... He threw a lot of pitches early, and then he settled in. I thought he kept his composure, and he pitched. You look at the linescore and see seven scoreless innings and say he breezed, but it wasn't easy.
When that happens it puts more of a burden on a guy like Vlad. Sometimes you can pitch around one guy in the middle, and we've seen that. When Vlad was out of the lineup we hung in there. We had some guys swinging the bat well. I don't think we go as far as Vlad goes, but we need more than that.
We had to pitch well tonight. John did a great job, along with Scot and Frankie. We got some big two-out hits, which were important.
We had to pitch our butts off the whole series. We didn't have a lot of options at that point, but we had a lot of confidence in Ervin. Ervin Santana 's the story tonight.
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.
None of our pitchers are in Chicago. We're going to use every pitcher we need tonight to get past tonight's game.
That is unwarranted that he got tossed. An opposition batter charges the mound and our pitcher gets tossed? That is an absolute joke.
Brandon has made some great strides. There was a little bit of question that he would be too big to play shortstop, but he has proved to be a premium talent. He has dynamite in his bat. His challenge now is to step up to better pitching and to excel at a higher level.