Is managing by feel in the midst of a minor comeback? It's certainly working for the man who returned this season to lead the AL's second wild-card team. But there's a tall order ahead.
in a low rumble, walks like his shoes are three sizes too small and prefers to talk about anything but himself. He manages a baseball game as if there are actual human beings on the field and not just a collection of numbers designed to dictate all outcomes, big and small. He is 68 years old and back for another run at glory that, if successful, he will refuse to accept credit for helping to create.
He watches games in much the same way, his arms folded on the rail toward the middle of the dugout. He talks to pitching coach Mike Maddux when the need arises, but he mostly keeps to himself. When a Ranger hits a home run, he inches his way closer to the dugout stairs, claps three times and extends his right hand for the celebrant to slap. There's something to be said for consistency.
Jankowski went 3-for-5 that night, and he says at least part of that -- maybe a hit and a half -- was because of Bochy's confidence in him."I mean, he's a legend," Jankowski says,"so it means something when he believes in you.
Bochy celebrates with Adolis Garcia after the final out of the Rangers' win over the top-seeded Orioles in Game 1 of the ALDS. It's not revelatory in any way to observe that much of baseball is predicated on failure. It's baked into the game's processes and psyches in a manner that doesn't exist in other sports; failure, in a way, is the expected outcome in a majority of the game's scenarios. It's such a recurring theme it's a wonder anyone wants to play.
"I think Boch has been in the clubhouse one time all year," Jankowski says. He knows the exact date, too: June 4, the night he won his 2,014th career game to move ahead of Walter Alston and into 10th place all-time."He came in and we did a little toast to him, but even then it seemed like he didn't feel comfortable in the clubhouse. That's the old-school mentality: 'You guys control the clubhouse and I'll be in my office if you need me.
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