... single off R.A. Dickey. Manager Tony La Russa said Thurston was probably looking down to touch second base when third base coach Jose Oquendo put up the stop sign for slow-footed catcher Jason LaRue. "Joe's made a couple of mistakes, but I ...

... mental side. "What's funny is I can't point to any one big moment," said Conway's Chris Curry, the first-base coach for the Omaha-bound Razorbacks. "But this team never really changed. Our character allowed our talent to finally ...

... organizations before going fulltime into coaching, is currently an assistant coach (in charge of catchers and the first-base coach) on Dave Van Horn's staff at the University of Arkansas. He has put on a skills clinic in Conway for four years and ...

... defensive liabilities. But the conversion hit a rough patch while Oquendo, the team's infield instructor and third base coach, was away managing Puerto Rico's WBC team. Schumaker continued to work with bench coach Joe Pettini during Oquendo ...

... game as they prepared for Monday afternoon's opener against the Pittsburgh Pirates. They also had some fun when third base coach Jose Oquendo pinch hit in the eighth and walked. The former St. Louis star got to third and heard some good-natured ...

... asked about it. "What's the difference whether the pitching coach, the manager, the hitting coach or the third-base coach ... makes pitching changes?" he said. "I'm not trying to make a point about anything. You guys want to make ...

... you play a sport at this level and you can get an edge, you take advantage of it," the Los Angeles Dodgers' third base coach said just days after Manny Ramirez became the latest superstar implicated in drug use. "I don't think steroids is ...

... guys would be all over him." Duncan is just as aggressive as before the surgery, with a few conditions. When third base coach Jose Oquendo sent him home on a pop fly to shallow center field during the team's last homestand, before taking off ...

... John Pelphrey). MOST TOUCHING GESTURE: The Colorado Rockies voted the family of the late Mike Coolbaugh, the first-base coach who was killed by a line drive in a game at Ray Winder Field while coaching for Wichita (a Rockie farm team) a full ...

... Actually, Hubbard is the first base coach of the Braves, a job he's always ... So Hubbard and Atlanta's third base coach, Brian Snitker, carried out their ... a former infielder and now third base coach of the Rockies. "I mean, it ...