The voices still questioned Colon's health after he struck out Matsui. It's always a danger to read into the body language of an athlete from the broadcast booth, ... But the body language of Bartolo Colon doesn't appear to be encouraging for the Angels. ... He doesn't have a lot of life to him right now.
Quotes about matsui (15 Quotes)
Matsui's got to go out there and play. It's not that Matsui has the job won. You try to say that Matsui last year had an off year. He was injured part of the year, and I think if you ask Willie today, there's a competition out there.
Shields had walked Gary Sheffield on four pitches and Hideki Matsui on a 3-2 pitch to load the bases for Cano. I was looking for a fastball and he threw me a fastball right down the middle, ... If he throws me that, I'm going to swing.
Conversation of the day Yogi Berra with Hideki Matsui - without a translator. It was in Japanese, always Japanese, ... Yogi just likes to joke around with me.
I want the opportunity. I'm going to try to do my best. I don't want Matsui to get hurt. If he feels better, it's good.
That game. The bad one. But you know, all around us, people were talking baseball. What to throw (Hideki) Matsui. Things like that.
You wait till you see that Dominican team. You wait till you see Puerto Rico. You wait till you see Venezuela. . . . Matsui is a great player. The Japanese team needs him.
Matsui was incredible. Trying to hit a guy throwing 95-plus in 40-degree weather, that's hard.
With the passing of Bob Matsui, our country has lost a great leader and America's seniors have lost their best friend in Congress,
I've never seen Matsui ever make a mistake. That's the weirdest thing.
It's fair to say that Matsui, last year, had an off year. I think if you asked Willie today, it'll be a competition out there.
Not surprisingly, Chacon gave plenty of credit to his teammates. Derek Jeter showed off his over-the-shoulder acumen to snag a blooper in the sixth Cano went up the middle to snag grounders twice Hideki Matsui made a critical lunging grab even slow-footed Ruben Sierra came up with a running catch in deep right. It was just incredible, ... That whole game was so intense.
I think that's personality more than anything. (Hideki) Matsui is so different and he's got the language barrier, too.
The respect other teams have for Matsui is incredible. When you watch him play day in, day out, that becomes pretty obvious. He's pretty versatile. He can hit anywhere in the lineup.
So we're not having contract-extension negotiations with Tom Gordon, Hideki Matsui or Bernie Williams, or any of the coaching staff, or myself. The focus is where it needs to be, which is on that field.