April 05, 2005
Lucky Thirteen
A lesson in how to motivate players by Lee Mazzilli.
ORIOLES PITCHER Rodrigo Lopez didn't know what was going on. He was sitting behind the desk in the manager's office at Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City on Thursday and wondering why Lee Mazzilli had put him there.
"It was weird," Lopez said. "He told me to turn around and open the cabinet. There were two doors and I opened them up, and there it was."
Inside was a neatly folded jersey bearing the number - 13 - that Lopez had surrendered to the new Orioles manager last year along with his identity as a starting pitcher.
Nice move by Maz, and he's rewarded with a shutout.
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