Rich Aurilia
Rich Aurilia
Richard Santo Auriliais a former Major League Baseball player, mainly as a shortstop. The 24th round pick of the Texas Rangers in the 1992 Major League Baseball draft, Aurilia played in the Rangers minor league system before being traded with first baseman Desi Wilson to the San Francisco Giants for pitcher John Burkett in 1994...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth2 September 1971
hits runners scoring walks
We got some walks and some hits with runners in scoring position, ... Those are the little things you have to do. You're not always going to get the three-run homer.
base couple guys hits homer nice run runners scoring small
We scored one run on a homer, but it was nice to see some other things go well. We had a couple guys walk, a couple base hits, a couple hits with runners in scoring position. Those are the little things you have to do to win. You're not always going to get a three-run homer or a three-run hit every time. You have to do the small things, and that's what we did today.
bad field good insurance majority somewhere weird
In a weird way, it's good and bad being an insurance policy. Do I like to do it? No, because I know I can play every day. At the same time, if I'm going to play every day somewhere on the field a majority of the time, that's fine.
confidence couple job last needed playing year
After the last year of playing a couple of new positions, I have confidence that I can do that and get the job done there. I think they have the confidence in me that if they needed to put me somewhere, that I would do the job.
die given lay nobody shows
To not lay down and die after the inning they had was big for us and shows that nobody in here has given up.
capitalize couple guys hook left
At that point, we had left 10 guys on base. We had had a couple opportunities, but we didn't capitalize on them. Getting off the hook like that was good.
absolutely change effect good happened plan positive supposed
I see no positive effect that can come out of this. I can see the good intentions, maybe, of what they think they're doing, but what are you going to change that's happened in the past? Absolutely nothing. The (steroid testing) plan we have in effect now is supposed to change the future, which is the only thing you can really control.
ego good played pride
I've played too long to let my ego get in the way, or my pride -- to say, 'I have to play shortstop' or something like that. You know what? I played 10 years at shortstop. Can I still play there? Yeah. But we have a good shortstop here.
gotten happened instead run win wish
The one thing I wish would have happened was we would have scored one more run for Milton. I wish he could have gotten a win out of that instead of a no-decision.
given good mentality nobody rest shows
That's good for out mentality the rest of the way. It shows nobody in here's given up.
choked ended fastball hit instead knew looking lose pull stayed supposed throwing trying
You really have nothing to lose in that situation. I choked up a little bit, especially with two strikes. I wasn't looking for an offspeed pitch, but I knew he had it. He ended up throwing me another fastball that I stayed on and hit it where I was supposed to hit it instead of trying to pull it.
pitchers
I don't know. That's for the pitchers to decide, not me.
couple guys homer hope walks
A couple of guys got walks and a couple of guys got hits. You can't hope for a three-run homer ever time.
depressing games lose seems teams win
It's kind of depressing when you lose like that. Teams like that, they win games like that. Seems like they always come out on top.