229 Quotes by Mike Scioscia

What Francisco did in 2002, ... was remarkable.

The first thing he told me was that he did not tag up and then he said he left early, ... I don't think he saw the play.

He's had better at-bats for the last two or three weeks. He's becoming productive. We need Fin. It's good to see him contribute.

We feel we have a good young arm going against those guys, and the only way you're going to beat pitching is to match them pitch for pitch.

A muddy track is not something that works in our favor. I think we need to run the bases, we need to stay aggressive. I think whether we play tonight or tomorrow or any time this series, you're going to have a slower track just because of the wetness that you anticipate the field having.

He was a little erratic early with his cutter. He got in some hitter's counts but he came back to get some big outs.

We certainly set the table, but we couldn't get that hit with guys in scoring position. (Rodrigo Lopez) made some pitches to put some guys away that were on the money, and we just couldn't put pressure on him. We just couldn't get that one hit to kind of get things going.

The last month of the season I think there were a lot of similarities that started to manifest in our club that did in 2002. I think our situational hitting all of a sudden got back to where it needed to be, we're running bases well. We're going to get a chance to get into our game hopefully, and if it can emerge like it did in 2002, we have a chance to get on that roll.

He was very comfortable on the defensive end.