Ned Yost
Ned Yost
Edgar Frederick "Ned" Yost IIIis a former Major League Baseball catcher and current manager of the Kansas City Royals. He previously managed the Milwaukee Brewers, and played for the Brewers, Texas Rangers, and Montreal Expos...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth19 August 1955
CityEureka, CA
ball curve fourth hammered
Rickie got a curve ball up in the fourth and hammered it. That was a big part of the ballgame.
bit hammered
Rickie got a curveball up a little bit and he hammered it. It was a big part of the game.
good nice rick sync
Rick Helling did a nice job. (He) had little spurts where he got out of sync a little bit. He made good adjustments and would get out of it.
asked came good job rick shot
Rick did a good job in Triple-A, and he came up here and has done everything we've asked him to do. We'll give him a shot at it.
enjoying midst monster poor winning
Poor Jenkins, he was distraught yesterday. He was having a monster year. We're having fun; we're in the midst of a 10-game winning streak, and he was enjoying himself.
anybody trust
No. 1, I didn't really have anybody (available) I can trust to bunt,
certain coming ready seven sitting straight takes
Lehr was up seven straight times, ready to come in (for certain situations). Getting up and sitting back down takes more out of you than coming in games. You can't keep doing that.
kids
Look who did the damage. That's where we're at right now. We've got those kids and they're producing.
deceiving looks
Looks are deceiving at times. Sometimes, they're not.
bother faced
Left-handers don't bother him. He has faced them all his life.
cracks huge run
One run there is a huge run, ... You give up five, but you still have 27 cracks at a young kid.
funnier funny
When things aren't going you're way, funny things happen, and it's not much funnier than that.
When things are going good, they're going good.
chance frame hardest hitting home mind prince special
We're going for the win, and Prince has a better chance of hitting a home run. That's the hardest thing to do in baseball. You have to have a special frame of mind going up there. He's got that special mind-set.