Charlie Manuel Quotes on Home (3 Quotes)

When (right-hander) Lidge is on the mound, throwing 90 miles-per-hour sliders, he eats righties up, ... We needed a base hit there. We didn't need a home run. Chavez puts the ball in play. The more I thought about it, more I realized I couldn't have done much different to get Howard up on the righty (in the seventh).

Chavez has to hit there after we use Michael Tucker and Howard, ... Lidge throws one of those 90 mile per hour sliders that eats right-handers up. We thought that Chavez could put the ball in play. All we needed was a base hit, and we win the ballgame. We didn't need a home run

No, I didn't realize that he hadn't hit a home run. But he picked a good time to hit one.