Lance Berkman
Lance Berkman
William Lance Berkman, nicknamed "Big Puma", is a former American professional baseball outfielder and first baseman. He played in Major League Baseballfor the Houston Astros, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth10 February 1976
CityWaco, TX
bottom bunch couple driven good hit means time weeks
Most of the time when you have those 10-run, 12-run games, it means the bottom of your lineup has hit well and driven in a bunch of runs. We've really been getting contributions all up and down the lineup. It's been a good couple of weeks for us.
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MLB takes care of it. They're the ones here in force. They've got crew chiefs. They've got all kinds of personnel,
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The pitching has been great on both sides. It's what you expect in the playoffs. When you have a close series like this, it usually comes down to who gets the clutch hits.
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I feel like Wandy's thrown the ball really well the whole year, ... I know he's had a few rough starts, but you can't expect a rookie to come up and give the innings he's given us.
breaks control
What are you going to do? Those are the breaks of the game, and you can't control that stuff.
plays
We've got a logjam out there. We'll see how that plays out. It's an interesting situation.
plays
We've got a logjam out there. We'll see how that plays out.
capitalize good mistakes opportunity pitches
You have to be patient, ... He makes a lot of good pitches and doesn't make many mistakes, and when he does make a mistake, you have to capitalize on it. If we get an opportunity to score, we need to do it and not let him off the hook. He's too good for that.
close open
We're the grunts. We just play baseball. Open it. Close it. I don't care.
It's one of those anomalies. I couldn't tell you what's going on.
bringing describe houston series
It's unbelievable, I can't even describe it. To be a big part of bringing the World Series the first World Series ever to Houston is just tremendous.
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That's really as good as I can hit that pitch, and the guy's standing on top of first base,
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It's was their night. They kept giving themselves chances to score, but a lot of hits were not exactly tattooed. There were seeing-eye grounders and a jam shot and that sort of thing, but give those guys a lot of credit.
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Everybody wants to talk about the hitters being juiced. Nobody even really thinks about the pitchers. Before, they were throwing 95 mph, but now they're throwing 90. It's going to be a whole different feel.