Manny Mota
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Manuel Rafael Mota Geronimo, more commonly known as Manny Mota, was a Dominican former Major League baseball outfielder who competed for the San Francisco Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Montreal Expos as well as being a Los Angeles Dodgers pinch hitting specialist. He was a Dodgers coach from 1980 to 2013.
Nick Altrock, who spent 42 seasons as a coach for the old Washington Senators, had his 34 seasons as a Dodgers coach, with the second-longest streak in MLB history.
Mota is currently a minor league hitting coach and Spanish language television broadcaster for the Dodgers.
Playing career
On February 21, 1957, Mota signed as an amateur free agent with the New York Giants. He started his minor league career with the Michigan City White Caps of the Midwest League, where he reached.314 in 126 games. He was promoted to the Class-B Danville Leafs of the Carolina League in 1958, where he scored.301 in 103 games.
Mota debuted with the Class A Springfield Giants of the Eastern League in 1959 and was later promoted to the AAA Phoenix Giants of the Pacific Coast League. He reached.304 in 86 games combined. In 1960, he appeared in 141 games for the AA Rio Grande Valley Giants of the Texas League, earning.307. He reached.289 in 142 games with the AAA Tacoma Giants in 1961.
Mota played for the San Francisco Giants against the Los Angeles Dodgers on April 16, 1962, his first at-bat appearance since 1962. On April 21, 1962, Jim Brosnan of the Cincinnati Reds hit his first single. In 47 games for the Giants, he had 13 hits in 74 at-bats for a.176 batting average.
The Giants traded Mota to the Houston Colt.45's (with Dick LeMay) on November 30, 1962 for infielder Joey Amalfitano.
Before he appeared in a professional game with Houston, Mota was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates for outfielder Howie Goss and cash on April 4, 1963, and he quickly established himself as one of the National League's best hitters. Mota played in 642 games and reached.297 in six years with the Pirates. On May 26, 1964, Philly's Chris Short of the Philadelphia Phillies was struck for the first time in his career.
Mota was the second player chosen in the Montreal Expos' expansion draft on October 14, 1968. In 31 games, he reached.315.
Mota was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers (along with Maury Wills) on June 11, 1969 (along with Maury Wills) for Ron Fairly and Paul Popovich. Mota was their number one pinch hitter and hit over.300 in the first five seasons while living in Los Angeles.
Mota played the first batted ball in major league history on May 16, 1970, causing a death. Mota fouled one off of Gaylord Perry along the first base line in the third quarter against the Giants at Dodger Stadium. In the left temple, the ball struck 14-year-old Alan Fish. Fish died as a result of an inoperable head injury four days earlier.
After being ranked in the league in batting average, Mota was chosen to the National League All-Star team in 1973. Mota was consistently praised for late inning heroics from 1974 to 1979, where he averaged 10 pinch hits for six seasons in a row. In the 1974, 1977, 1978, and 1978 World Series, the Dodgers appeared. He made his mark in the charts by becoming the all-time champion in pinch hits in 1979. He had a short swing and was often half-swung just to have the ball fly beyond the first baseman's reach for a hit.
Mota made his fourth World Series appearance in 1981, this time as a mentor. Mota played for the Dodgers for two years, the 1982 season being his first appearance on the plate. He ended his playing career with a career pinch-hitting average of.304, which has since been broken by Mark Sweeney and Lenny Harris, who has since been injured, with a combined batting average of.304 and a.297 pinch-hitting average. His.315 batting average is the second best (1,800 or more at bats) in Los Angeles Dodgers history, second only behind Mike Piazza's.331.
Post-playing career
During his final seasons on the diamond, Mota served as a player-coach for the Dodgers, then became a mentor after retiring as a player. In 1988, Mota coached Los Angeles, his fifth in Dodger uniform. He went from being a coach to become a full-time broadcaster in 2013 (see below).
When Ted Stryker decides to "concentrate," Mota's fame as a pinch-hitter was immortalized in the 1980 film Airplane! On flying the plane, I hear an echo in his head ("concentrate...!" "Pinch-hitting for Pedro Borbon...(Borbon)" says the Manny. (Mota)... (This did not happen in a real big league game because Mota and Borbon had never competed for the same major league team at the same time; however, they did play together for Tigres del Licey in the Dominican Republic for several winter seasons.)
Mota and his partner Margarita live in the Dominican Republic, where they head the Manny Mota International Foundation in the off-season. This non-governmental group, which was established over 30 years ago, provides essential services and other assistance to homeless youth and their families in both the Dominican Republic and the United States.
In a pre-game on-field ceremony at Dodger Stadium, Mota was inducted into the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum Hall of Fame on August 23, 2003. In 2013, Mota was inducted into the Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals.
Mota appeared on Fox Sports en Espanol television broadcasting of the 2007 World Series and spent time with the Dodgers on select PrimeTicket broadcasts; he then became a full-time broadcaster on SportsNet LA's Spanish-language broadcasts.