Richie Sexson
Richie Sexson
Richmond Lockwood "Richie" Sexsonis a former Major League Baseball first baseman who played for five teams from 1997 to 2008. At 6'8", Sexson is the tallest position player in MLB history...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth29 December 1974
CityPortland, OR
assured believe cool exploding face figured seen
It's fun, because he's not used to any of this. I can't believe he's never seen an exploding pen. I figured they made those things in Japan. Once I assured him that his face wasn't on fire, he was cool with it.
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We do have a tough division. We have to play 54 games against the toughest pitchers in the league. Hopefully we can hit and pitch on the same day and win games.
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We think we're a better team than we've shown this month.
believe care everybody
We believe in ourselves. We don't care what everybody else thinks.
actual ready teams themselves traveling
This way, we're getting an actual day off. It's a long season. Some teams kill themselves traveling on the off day. It'll be a long day (Sunday), but we should be ready to go (today).
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Those people were yelling that at me all day long. I didn't hear them after a while. They didn't say anything.
hit per pitch
With him, you may only get one pitch to hit per at-bat. It was the first one, fortunately.
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We expected to be a little better. We just ran into some serious pitching.
blaming facing fact game good saw struggling stuck sure
We've been struggling with our at-bats. But we've stuck with our game plan. We've been blaming (the slump) on the fact that we've been facing good pitchers. And we have. We saw another one tonight. And it sure is good to see Ichiro going again.
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We've been struggling to get hits. But we've tried to stick with our game plan. We've been putting our struggle down to the fact we've run into good pitching.
We all want to see our families. But you can't have everything you want.
jump
If we could jump out and play well early, you get some confidence. Then things kind of snowball.
ballpark believe certainty convinced
I'd like to believe so. No one can ever say with certainty who's going to go to a World Series. But you have to come to the ballpark every day convinced you are going to win.
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We've been in most of these games in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings. Most of the pitchers we know are going to be with us have been OK. It's the kids who have been getting beat up late in games.