Brian Giles
Brian Giles
Brian Stephen Gilesis a former Major League Baseball outfielder. During his career he played for the Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates and San Diego Padres. The left-handed Giles was a two-time All-Star and had a career line of .291/.400/.502 with 287 home runs, 411 doubles, 1,078 run batted in, and 1,183 walks in 1,847 games...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth20 January 1971
CityEl Cajon, CA
cover develops gives ground obviously together understanding
Obviously we're going to be able to cover more ground this year. And the more you play together gives you a better understanding of each other. Understanding develops as you play.
ask next special
Why don't you ask him if it'll be special to play next to me?
experience free
When you haven't been a free agent, it's intriguing, a new experience. It's not something I've been through before. I've always had a contract.
baseball create played scoring
We've just played inconsistent baseball lately. We have to create more scoring opportunities for ourselves.
balloons hit home mobility nice runs
It balloons up a little bit, ... There's enough mobility to play. It'd be nice if you got to hit home runs and didn't run the bases.
mistake plate
Hoffman just made a mistake and put something over the plate I could hit,
high hit mistake pitch plate
He got a pitch out over the plate -- probably a mistake -- and I hit it on a line. Hit it high here, and it's not going to go.
earlier production talked
He made some mistakes. Like we talked earlier today, he doesn't make too many of them, and when he does, we have to try to get some production from his mistakes, and we had some big at-bats tonight.
pitch swept
We're one pitch away from being swept -- that's a big two-game swing,
pressure three
We've got to put pressure on them, ... They're still three down. I like our chances.
aggressive high later leg plate runs score slowing tough
He was slowing down to the plate the later he got in the count, and with that high leg kick, you take a chance, ... You have to in this park. It's tough to score runs here, so you have to be aggressive on the bases.
dave diego grew san watching
I grew up in San Diego watching Dave Winfield, ... In '95, when I got called up, there he was -- my teammate. That was a pretty big thrill.
hit snapped top wrist
I had it, ... My wrist was over the wall. When my glove hit the top of the wall, it popped out. When it snapped back is when it popped out.
fence hit knocked palm top wrist
I had it in the palm of my glove, ... but my wrist hit the top of the fence and knocked it out.