Don Mattingly Miami Marlins

Donald arthur mattingly born april 20 1961 is an american former professional baseball first baseman coach and current manager for the miami marlins of major league baseball mlb.

Don mattingly miami marlins.

Miami marlins manager don mattingly celebrates with the team in clinching a playoff berth after their win in the 10th inning of a baseball game against the new york yankees at yankee stadium. After the coronavirus nightmare the miami marlins swept the baltimore orioles in four games and have compiled a 6 1 record. 16 2020 file photo miami marlins manager don mattingly watches his team during spring training baseball practice in jupiter fla. Petersburg florida august 04.

Mattingly was an overachiever and so are the marlins. They interviewed don mattingly on wednesday afternoon from the dugout as his marlins continued to shock the world this time by going into wrigley field and beating the cubs winners of the national league central in game 1 of their wild card series. Manager don mattingly 8 of the miami marlins looks on during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the tampa bay rays at tropicana field on august 04. Nicknamed the hit man and donnie baseball he spent his entire 14 year career playing with the new york yankees and later managed the los angeles dodgers for five years.

Nl wild card series presented by hankook tire game 2. When he got to miami and before jeter took over and began his rebuild a rebuild that included trading national league mvp giancarlo stanton and the 59 home runs he hit in 2017 mattingly s first marlins team went 79 82 and he finished fifth in nl manager of the year voting. Their season nearly derailed at the start because of a coronavirus outbreak that sidelined more than half the team and even at full strength. Marlins manager don mattingly who starred first as a yankees player and captain before a long stint on joe torre s coaching staff was notably emotional in the moments after his team extended its.

Don mattingly returns this weekend to yankee stadium where his best years as a player always ended when the regular season did. Nobody was sure that everybody included the marlins.