Willie Randolph
Willie Randolph
Willie Larry Randolphis an American former Major League Baseball second baseman and manager. During an 18-year baseball career, he played from 1975 to 1992 for six different teams, most notably the New York Yankees. He has joined ESPN as a postseason baseball analyst, beginning in September 2013. He will mainly be on Baseball Tonight, and provide updates during Monday and Wednesday night September network telecasts...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth6 July 1954
CityHoly Hill, SC
ball bottom fluidity kept key looked pitcher pound success totally
I thought Zambrano looked a lot looser, there was more fluidity to his pitches, he kept the ball down. The key to success for any pitcher is to pound the bottom of the zone, but with him, especially. He looked totally different.
coming early season shaky since steady vintage
Tommy was outstanding, vintage Glavine. He's been coming on steady for us since the early season shaky starts.
ball jason pitches threw
Tommy threw the ball well again, but Jason Schmidt pitched well, too. He made the pitches when he had to.
anyone becoming david great pitchers question surprise
There is little question about David becoming a great player. But it will be interesting to see how he adjusts this year. He won't be a surprise to anyone anymore. The pitchers know about him, and they will make adjustments. I want to see how he adjusts.
gotten momentum obviously
Those were big plays. Could have obviously gotten us some momentum going.
anytime bad broke game gotten hell home loose obviously pitcher pitches quick wrong
Today, obviously it's pretty much bad game management. Anytime you give up 0-2 home runs, that's not what you want to do. We had that quick 1-2-3 pitcher and then all hell broke loose in that one inning where he should have gotten out of that real easy. He just made bad pitches at the wrong time.
factor help
The overriding factor for me is if he can help our club.
three
We'll get two out of three and go on the road,
satisfied three
We'll get two out of three and be satisfied with that.
baseball finish finishes home regardless schedule sets trip
We'll know where we are by the end of this trip and then we'll still have to go home and finish strong. A lot can happen, but the way the schedule sets up, regardless of how this trip finishes up, we still have a lot of baseball to play.
affect short
You'd like to have all your players. We're short and have to go with what we've got. I don't know how this will affect us.
ahead capitalize gonna happen teams
You'd like to capitalize on the teams ahead of you, but it's not like it's just gonna happen that way all the time.
advantage arm bottom intimidate line strength throwing totally trying
We're not trying to go out and totally intimidate anybody. The bottom line is, we do have arm strength, and that's to your advantage in some ways. The key, really, is throwing strikes.
chance stayed understanding win
We had an understanding of that going into the game, ... If we had a chance to win the game, he would have stayed in.