Rick Renteria
Rick Renteria
Richard Avina Renteriais an American former Major League Baseball infielder, coach and manager who is currently the bench coach for the Chicago White Sox. Renteria played in parts of five seasons between 1986 and 1994 with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Seattle Mariners, and Florida Marlins. He then coached and managed in the Marlins organization until 2001, and in the San Diego Padres organization until 2013. He was the manager of the Chicago Cubs in 2014...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth25 December 1961
advantage ball ended hard hitting kid knocking mistakes nice perfect physical skip slide strikes throw timely took
We got some timely hitting and took advantage of some physical mistakes. Skip put the ball in play with two strikes and made something happen. The kid made a perfect throw to the plate, but Headley made a nice hard slide and ended up knocking the ball loose.
ball bat deep definitely drew good head hit job last nice pulled score struck took
Drew did a nice job in his last two at-bats. He struck out in his first two. He took some good swings, but he pulled his head a little bit. He was a little over-anxious, maybe. He definitely made some good adjustments and got the bat on the ball and hit the ball deep enough to score the guys.
base extra giving nice
What were there, (eight) singles? He wasn't giving up extra base hits, and he was around the plate. He did a real nice job.
game leave nice positive
Cesar did a really nice job. I thought it was a positive for him to leave the game in that situation.
good
They keep doing a very good job. They've been very reliable.
It was just something that we had do. It's an in-house thing.
contact happens sit time
Any time something like that happens to someone you've been in contact with it doesn't sit well. He's already been through a lot in his life.
attacked guys strike tough trying work zone
They attacked the strike zone. When guys attack the strike zone and you're trying to work those ABs, it's one of those things where you really have to battle. When you get guys like that (throwing strikes), it's a tough battle.
comfort guys level obviously playing
Being able to play guys every day is obviously a plus, because there's a comfort level with those guys being out there and playing with each other.
zone
He was up in the zone a little too much.
badly both good pitchers played
Overall, it was a not a badly played game. Both pitchers did a good job. I even thought Burke did a good job.
It got a little squeaky there at the end, but (Davidson and Jamison) got us through.
base everybody happened happens sends somebody stay tonight until
It happens sometimes. Tonight it happened to us, so we'll use it to make a correction. Everybody has to understand: You stay on the base until somebody sends you back.
behind catching good great handling job plate wears
He's been catching every day, and for a big guy, that wears on him. But he's been very good for us. Even when he's not hitting, he's been doing a great job behind the plate handling the pitchers.