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
Vlad has had some stretches occasionally where hits haven't fallen in. But he's the type of hitter that takes one swing to get him locked in seeing the ball again, and he can go crazy. That's a dangerous player, and they have done a good job with him so far.
Finley's been swinging the bat a lot better, ... It's good to see him chip in.
There are some things in our offense that have started to come together. We have some of the guys that we will need to be productive this season starting to swing the bat.
He is flat-out over anxious. He has come out of his game a little bit and maybe put more into his swing than normal.
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.
When you're not swinging the bats well you look flat. Our club was ready to go. We had a lot of energy.
When you're not swinging the bats well, you look flat.
It's not like one guy is getting the hits. It's like every single guy is swinging the bat all at once.
We kept waiting for him to show the wear and tear,
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.
You have to remember, ... he was No. 1 on a lot of people's list a couple of years ago.
We were facing a real potpourri of pitchers, ... Everyone who came in the game made good pitches. All of those guys, they've got some good young arms. Woodyard had good stuff. Fortunately, we got to them late.
We had some opportunities on the offensive side. We got into a position but we fell short.
Fin's very frustrated, ... We're all very frustrated with the year Fin's having. No one feels it more than Fin.