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October 29, 2023
Just over a year ago, Bruce Bochy became Rangers manager. He was hired after his retirement by general manager Chris Young, who had previously pitched for Bochy in San Diego, because Young believed Bochy was the right manager to get things right in Texas.
The Rangers had lost 94 games the previous season and 102 the season before that. But a man named Young didn’t care at all that Bochy was 67 at the time; he simply knew from personal experience that Bochy was a very great baseball man, a man who Young believed had more baseball in him, believing at the same time that what Bochy brings to a clubhouse and dugout never gets old Never.
Here’s something Bochy said the day he was introduced as Rangers’ new manager:
“I remember going to see the Rolling Stones and seeing Mick Jagger sprinting up that podium. … I thought, ‘He’s almost 80, why am I retired?’
He later added this about his motivation to return:
“Some people asked, ‘Why?’ The simple answer is that I miss this game. There are so many things about the game that I miss. In the dugout, the competition, being on the team. But aside from that, I said that if I wanted to get back into the fire, it had to be the right solution.
Today, Bochy, whose life in professional baseball began when he signed with the Astros nearly half a century ago, has become the first manager in baseball history to win pennants with three different teams: San Diego, San Francisco and now Texas. He won three World Series in five years with the Giants — starting in 2010, when they beat the Rangers — and if his team can get three more games against the D-backs, he’ll join the exclusive club of managers who have won. at least four World Series:
Joe McCarthy, Casey Stengel, Connie Mack, Walter Alston, Joe Torre.
Bochy has seen so much this time of year, and in Friday night’s opener, he saw his team come back when Corey Seager tied it at 5 with a two-run homer off closer Paul Sewald. Arizona, then won when Adolis García, October’s star, hit another over the wall in the bottom of the 11th.
After the game was over, someone asked Bochy where the game compared to anything he had seen in the World Series.
“Right near the top,” he said, and the way he said it, it told you everything: that this was the possibility of a team like this, of a season like this -this and an evening like this that brought him back.
The evolution of Bochy’s life in baseball is truly incredible – and quite wonderful. He once played college ball at South Alabama for Eddie Stanky, managed in the 1940s by Leo Durocher. He was behind the plate for one of the games in that memorable 1980 NLCS between the Astros and Phillies, and he even played a game for the Padres when they reached their first World Series in 1984. The following year , in July, he even managed to hit the only home run that Nolan Ryan has ever allowed.
Bochy became manager of the Padres in 1995 and took them to another World Series in 1998. They were swept, but it took perhaps the best Yankees team of all (114 regular season wins, 125 overall) to achieve this. Besides? Bochy was successful in this series before the two rookie stars of this current World Series were even born – Evan Carter of Texas and Corbin Carroll of Arizona.
Then Bochy went 3-0 in the World Series with the Giants. In this century, only the Red Sox have won more titles, with four. Bochy walked away after the 2019 season, and while he made it clear he might be available to manage again if the right opportunity presented itself, it was thought the next bright spot on the map for him would be Cooperstown.
Then came the call from Chris Young.
“(Young) was determined to bring winning baseball back to Texas, and he did it,” Bochy said after the Rangers beat the Astros in seven games to win the American League pennant.
With a day off on Sunday and this exciting series tied at one game apiece, it’s the perfect opportunity to look back at where Bruce Bochy has been and where he currently is, managing the Rangers with intelligence, grace and wit. mixing the old school vibe with all the modern numbers, I’m only looking for one number now:
Bochy never thought the game had gotten away from him, he always thought he had more baseball in him. He was right about that, and now one of the biggest stars of his return to the World Series is Bochy himself. He can’t move like Mick Jagger. But he is the same as Mick on this point:
