Sam Perlozzo
Sam Perlozzo
Samuel Benedict Perlozzois a former second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball, most recently with the Baltimore Orioles...
relax
I told them to relax because they were making me nervous. We can relax. We're good. We'll be OK.
damage major
Damage control. I thought, 'Holy cow, here we go again.' When he got out of that, I said, 'All right. That's a major step.
anybody brought everybody good seem
It wasn't a good day for that kind of stuff. And everybody we brought in couldn't seem to get anybody out.
It just happens. I don't know why it happens.
race
It was race to get to it, and we just couldn't get to it.
certainly move ready tickled
It's certainly something that I've wanted for a long time. I'm tickled to death. We're ready to move forward.
ball few hit nice somebody streak
It's been like that this whole streak here. The few opportunities we have where we hit the ball real good, somebody makes a nice play on it.
challenge clubhouse deal door inside team together walk whatever
It's a challenge to deal with it. We have goals. Our thing is that when we're inside the clubhouse we are a team together. That's what I addressed the club with. And that's what we're going to do. When you walk out the door you can do whatever you want, but when you're in here you're together as a team.
best guy heck knows manager second somebody trust wants
There are two things. One, you know that you've got a guy that knows what the heck he's doing, and the second is that any manager wants somebody he can trust. If you can't trust your best friend, who can you?
against beaten cut fastball few freeze half inner seemed strikes
We've beaten him a few times, but he's pitched pretty well against us a few times. He had that little cut fastball with two strikes on the inner half that seemed to freeze up our right-hand hitters. We couldn't get anything going offensively off him.
lazy quit trying yell
Yell at them for what? For not getting a hit? When they quit trying and get lazy I'll yell at all of them.
finest men talked
When you talked about the Orioles, you talked about Elrod. Elrod Hendricks was one of the finest men I have ever met.
happen next ok
We're better than we're playing; we just need to concentrate a little more. It's not OK not to execute. ... As a team, I told them it's not going to happen next year. It's not acceptable.
hung
We battled all the way to the end. You've got to give them credit. They hung in there.