Arizona Diamondbacks and Milwaukee Brewers lock horns, managers stress sportsmanship – MLB News
As the baseball temperature rises with the commencement of post-season games, the Milwaukee Brewers and the Arizona Diamondbacks’ managers are looking to moderate it somehow. Interestingly, as managers, this is their first assignment to handle in any post-season
series.
With the debut that the two will have, the Brewers enjoy comparative advantage. They have a staggering record of having won 57 games on their home ground, losing merely 24 of them so far. But there is a stiff potential challenge that the Brewers might face
this time.
Since the start of 2011 Major Leagues, the only teams that have taken on the Brewers with confidence and strength are the Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets and to the mild apprehension of the Brewers, the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Diamondbacks had won two of the three-game series in July. This is what the Arizona’s manager Kirk Gibson has in his mind and definitely wants his players to take maximum advantage of.
For him, body language will have enormous role to play. "It's going to be noisy," Gibson said. "All the things that we work on -- communication, understanding each others' body languages -- this is when it all comes into play."
However, Ron Roenicke, the Milwaukee Brewers team manager, knows what factors contribute to the overall outlook of the players and the end result of the game.
“The more times you're in the playoffs, the more you're around the atmosphere, the more that you see what happens to players and what happens to outside influences on those players, the easier it gets," Roenicke said.
Despite the temperatures that are currently running high, the two team managers realise it is not a war that they are getting into. They are well aware of the fact that sportsmanship and the managerial responsibilities bind them to compete as managers and
the players compete against the players.
Thus as the Brewers and Diamondbacks come face-to-face, there will be a lot to see how the players and managers keep their cool and compete, not fight. It promises to be an exciting hard fought series, as two of the top teams compete.
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