Terry Francona
Terry Francona
Terrence Jon "Terry" Francona, nicknamed "Tito", is the current manager of the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball. He was a first baseman and outfielder in the majors from 1981 to 1990. After retiring as a player, he managed several minor league teams in the 1990s before managing the Philadelphia Phillies for four seasons. In 2004, Francona was hired to manage the Boston Red Sox, and that year he led the team to its first World Series championship since 1918...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth22 April 1959
CityAberdeen, SD
CountryUnited States of America
I miss him already. He's a good friend of mine.
I know the run he's been on. Today we found out why.
I know the run he has been on and today we found out why. We saw a much more mature pitcher.
Once he got the lead, you could see him reaching for a little bit extra. He was terrific. ... He enjoys competing and is fun to watch. I'm glad we didn't waste that outing.
If nothing else, I loved the way he treated the players. He gave them a lot of room. He was, what's that word, folksy.
It's different. You've got to win today's game. It's almost like every game's an elimination game. I think it's a compliment to the teams the U.S. played against, and also it's the timing, so you don't get a true read of the teams. How many games of consequence do you have where a catcher plays half a game?
It worked out well. We put a nice crooked number up early and we got to stay away from some guys in the ?pen that we wanted to.
We won. I'm sure they'd rather play at home, ... In the end it doesn't matter. You need to win wherever you play. If that gets in the way, you're not good enough.
We won 95 games in a season where things didn't go right. I'm not going to apologize for that.
We signed him because he's one of the best pitchers in the league. Now we're close to having that guy back.
Don't get me wrong: These people love the Patriots. But they wake up and want to know what happened to the Red Sox. I mean, they really care. It's unbelievable. I've never seen anything like it. It's part of what's so good. But I'm right smack in the middle of it, and it gives me a headache sometimes. I know what it means to these people. I just want to do what's right for our team. I love living through this with them.
There was a lot of extraordinary efforts tonight by a lot of people. We got ourselves in a position where one slip-up and we lose. We actually put ourselves in a position where we could win in the eighth and we didn't.
Is it going to happen? It might not happen, but we're trying to cover every base we can.
After all these games we've played, we've played ourselves into a situation where it comes down to two games. That's just the way it is.