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March 07, 2008
And You Think Girardi Is Tough?
From the K.C. Star -
It didn’t matter Thursday that Ryan Shealy had just hit a game-ending homer for a 4-3 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks at Surprise Stadium. Or that the Royals had just won their fourth game in a row. Or even that it’s just spring training.
Hillman had seen too many base-running mistakes earlier in the game.
His solution was to gather the entire team at the plate for what amounted to a 15-minute lecture in full view of the Diamondbacks and the departing crowd of 5,539. Hillman then spent another 10 minutes in discussion with veteran second baseman Mark Grudzielanek near third base before initiating his postgame news conference at the dugout.
“I was just talking about running the bases,” Hillman told reporters. “We had a couple of mistakes today. I’m not displeased. We won the ballgame.
“We’ve got to run the bases the right way all of the time. And today, we had a couple of mistakes. We could have been in a better position.”
Hillman declined to elaborate and soon ended discussion of the matter by replying, “Done,” to a follow-up question.
I wonder if this will come up on the next weekly Cashman-Hillman call?
Posted by WW Staff at March 7, 2008 09:55 AM