Veronica Alvarez, a coach within the A’s group, gained her first recreation as supervisor Wednesday evening for the Excessive-A Lansing Lugnuts.
Alvarez is the primary lady to carry that place for the Michigan-based staff, in keeping with MLB.com. She’s substituting for supervisor Phil Pohl, who's on trip.
“It’s superior to see Veronica residing out her dream, getting her alternative,” Athletics supervisor Mark Kotsay informed reporters Thursday in Arlington, Texas, earlier than Oakland concluded a seven-game street journey with a day recreation in opposition to the Texas Rangers. “This group has been nothing however supportive of her. To see her within the final week of spring coaching, you can see her power and need to study as a lot as attainable and to see her change Phil on his trip time is nice.”
Lansing, the Athletics’ HIgh-A affiliate within the Midwest League, beat Nice Lakes 6-3.
Alvarez, 39, has labored at spring coaching with the Athletics since 2019. She misplaced her managerial debut Tuesday 2-1 and can stay on the helm for by the present six-game collection. She has managed the U.S. nationwide ladies’s baseball staff and has been lively in ladies’s baseball since 2017.
🚨HISTORY IN THE MAKING🚨
Congratulations to @V8Alvarez for clinching her first MiLB managerial victory final evening in opposition to the Loons❗️Let's go for two⃣❗️⚾️ #GoNutspic.twitter.com/yLjWTcHL1P
— Lansing Lugnuts (@LansingLugnuts) August 18, 2022
“A significant a part of all the things I do and why I do it's the significance of it; the significance of illustration and what that might imply to just a little lady who sees me in that position,” Alvarez informed MLB.com. “On the identical time, I really feel so snug on the sphere that it feels regular simply to be on the market and be competing and to be main, whether or not it’s males or ladies.”
A catcher on U.S. Ladies’s World Cup groups in Japan (2008), Venezuela (2010) and Canada (2012), Alvarez serves as a firefighter-paramedic for the town of Hollywood, Florida.
NOTABLE
— Left-handed reliever A.J. Puk has a 1.72 earned run common and opposing batters are 9-for-54 (.167) in opposition to him during the last 16 video games. What Kotsay finds most encouraging has been Puk’s means to remain wholesome, as a result of there’s by no means been a lot query about his expertise.
“For A.J., the necessary factor is getting him by the following 5 weeks with a clear invoice of well being,” Kotsay mentioned. “All of those guys (within the bullpen) are going to surpass what they did final 12 months in appearances.”
— Ramon Laureano, who went on the 10-day injured checklist Tuesday has a Grade 1 indirect pressure and is working by the rehab course of.
“For Ramon will probably be ache tolerance when it comes to his exercises and for him as effectively to start out doing rotational stuff,” Kotsay mentioned. “He says he feels lots higher, which is optimistic.”
LINEUP
Cal Stevenson CF
Tony Kemp LF
Sean Murphy DH
Seth Brown RF
Stephen Vogt 1B
Sheldon Neuse 2B
Vimeal Machin 3B
Shea Langeliers C
Nick Allen SS
Zach Logue P