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
control excited games grind weeks
This is what you play for, to get to the postseason. If you can't get excited with 14 games to go and a 5 1/2-game lead, you've got problems. We've got two weeks left. We've got to grind it out. We control our destiny.
spill
That's OK. Just as long as they don't spill any of the beer.
eddie helped keeping
Eddie helped me out in keeping on the same plane,
strike
They were one strike away from a sweep. You never know what that can do to a team.
close great performance pitching played season seems smell time today weird win
It seems that every win at this time of the season is big. When you're getting close to the end, you can kind of smell it. Today we played kind of weird baseball, but we got a great pitching performance from Pedro. And in a one-run game, anything can happen.
good hopefully huge struggled turn win
It's a huge win, hopefully it does turn things around for us. It's good for us to just win a game. We have struggled at home.
defense pitching
It's all about pitching and defense in the playoffs,
baseball blood ended knew mistakes perfect playoff runs smell
They smell blood and they went after it. We knew we had to play perfect baseball and we ended up making too many mistakes in this series. You can't give up all those runs so early, especially in a playoff baseball game.
close dropped homer
The replays showed it was close to being a homer and I just dropped it.
amazes makeup says
The thing that amazes me most is he's only 24 years old. You don't have that makeup too often at that young an age. For him to go out and do what he did says a lot about him.
admired excited help playing
I've always admired the way he plays. He'll help us defensively and give us some right-handed power. I'm excited about playing with Mike.
help hurt percent
You're not going to feel 100 percent too often. For me, I feel if I'm 80 percent, I'm going to help out and not hurt the team.
fame fitting great hall job keeping last meant special three
The guy's going to the Hall of Fame, ... It meant a lot to have him out there. It's only fitting he got the last three outs. Trevor Hoffman's done a great job of keeping us together. It's a special moment.
ahead games judge tough trying
These games are tough to judge because we're trying not to look ahead to Tuesday, but you kind of get that feeling.