Nomar Garciaparra
Nomar Garciaparra
Anthony Nomar Garciaparrais a former American Major League Baseball player and current SportsNet LA analyst. After playing parts of nine seasons as an All-Star shortstop for the Boston Red Sox, he played third base and first base for the Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Oakland Athletics. He is one of 13 players in Major League history to hit two grand slams during a single game, and the only player to achieve the feat at his home stadium...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth23 July 1973
CityWhittier, CA
CountryUnited States of America
What happened is part of the game. I'm not going to sulk about it. I'm glad to be playing the game that I love.
Those two games down there definitely helped. It was good to go out there, because you have to test it in a game situation. When you get into this environment, you can't simulate the game. And if I test it here and have a setback, that kind of hurts the team as well. So I didn't want to do that. It's not 100 percent, but I didn't expect it to be.
It's great, I'm excited to play for Grady again. He's unbelievable. He's a great manager. He's got great wisdom, he knows the game so well, he's so great to play for and he wins. That's what's awesome.
Zambrano pitched a great game tonight. He kept them off-balance and got a couple hits tonight.
I never saw a problem with it being a tie. I saw one of the best games I've ever seen.
I love the game of baseball.
My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.
You'll have games where you're out there a long time. Being able to go through that and not get stiff was a good thing for me, ... As I went along, it felt better, and on that last play [a nifty move to his right and a throw across his body for the final out in the seventh] had a lot of body torque to it, and no problems.
People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game.
It was the place where I saw my first major league game. It brought back a lot of childhood memories. There was feeling that I got by going there.
The reward is just being able to play again, ... I want to be back to play with these guys.
The three of us just want to be back and be a part of it and hopefully help in any way possible, ... I think that's our mentality.
Every position is important and has its differences. It takes time to reach the same instinct level at first base that I had shortstop. It is a work in progress, but I'm getting there.
At third, that's still a work in progress. That's what's great, every day I get to work at third, work at hitting, I've got to do everything.