Ron Gardenhire
Ron Gardenhire
Ronald Clyde Gardenhireis a former Major League Baseball shortstop for the New York Mets and former manager of the Minnesota Twins. He currently serves as a special assistant to the General Manager of the Minnesota Twins, Terry Ryan...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth24 October 1957
CityButzbach, Germany
call
What he should do is call me. Not you.
hit messing start
We're doing fine. I'm not going to start messing around with guys' brains. In time, he'll hit cleanup. We've said that before.
ball facing good hot team
(We're) facing a hot team that's got everything going for them. And we're not really locating the ball as good as we can. That's what it comes down to.
battling easier few good guys numbers players positions start stretching work
We're getting down to a few numbers where we can work it a little easier and not try to get everyone in. We want to start stretching out our players and take a good look at some of these guys that are battling each other and battling for positions on this team.
accused anybody compete hard laying means race sure white
We know how much this means to the White Sox and what kind of race they're in. So we just want to compete as hard as we can and make sure we don't get accused by anybody of laying down.
accuse game laying
We know how important this game is to the Sox and everyone else and no one can accuse us of laying down.
behind bit exactly good guy location normally perfect seen stuff
We know he's the one guy who's a little bit behind where he would normally be. No excuses. He had good stuff tonight, but he's not exactly perfect right now with his location and as good as we've seen him.
guts ok pitching wants
We know he's pitching with a lot of guts right now. As long as he wants the ball, we know he's OK to go out there.
clubhouse greatest leader trying
We were trying to get him to come back into the clubhouse where he was the greatest leader I've ever seen. He wanted to do it.
needs starting time
We're starting to get concerned. It's mid-March, and he hasn't been out there yet. We have time, but the time is getting to where he needs to get out there and see some hitters.
certain inventing start
When your infielder can't go out and play, you get a little nervous. You start to look around and inventing things on how you could get through it if certain things happen.
couple pitches talking
When he got in a couple of jams, he made some pitches when he had to. But he pitched, and that's what we've been talking about. It's something that he's learned, to not overthrow, and now he's just pitching.
five pennant race runs
We're in a pennant race here, ... We're doing everything we can to win. And five runs in two innings, we can't do that.
mess
We're not going to mess with it. He's pitched enough.