The day Don Mattingly decided to come over to the Los Angeles Dodgers organization following Joe Torre, Hollywood rejoiced, and immediately embraced him. Mattingly, a Hall of Famer with a stellar Major League career as a player, has already had a couple slip ups as an interim manager.
In the short week that Torre and the Dodgers split squad have been in Taiwan stretching the ties of American Baseball overseas, Mattingly has been at the helm of the Glendale squad.
So far, the experience has been marked by shutout losses, an error in the line-up card that resulted in an Andre Eithier eventual game-winning home run, and a slip up of the tongue that came at a completely undesirable time.
It's still Spring Training for a couple more weeks and already Dodgers fans and baseball followers are he ...
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Article written by Todd Boldizsar
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