Former Lakeview High School and University of Tennessee standout Rick Honeycutt just completed his 12th season as pitching coach of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Dodgers had baseball’s best regular-season record with a 104-58 mark and reached the World Series for the first time since 1988. They could not deliver a title, however, losing Wednesday night’s seventh and deciding game against the Houston Astros, 5-1, at Dodger Stadium.
Honeycutt was a guest Thursday afternoon of “Press Row” on Chattanooga’s ESPN 105.1 FM:
Q: Are you experiencing both pride and disappointment right now?
A: “Yeah, that’s right on. Whenever you lose the last game you play in a season, you’re never happy, but you made it to the World Series, which is one of the goals you set in spring training. We worked so hard and had a great run. We just came up a little short against a great Astros team.