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
hit needed pitch
It's a combination of things. We just haven't been able to come up with the big hit or the big pitch when we needed it.
good hit standing top
That's really as good as I can hit that pitch, and the guy's standing on top of first base,
classy respect run
They run a classy organization over there. We have a lot of respect for them.
gets hits hitters home seems showing stop threat twice whenever
With the hitters we have, we are a threat to hit homers any time. I told Preston to stop showing me up. It seems like whenever I hit a home run, he gets up and hits one twice as far.
move suck
We're going to have to suck it up and move on. It's not going to be easy.
brother impact locker love means people trouble understanding
I love that guy. He's like my big brother in the game. People have trouble understanding what he means to people in this locker room. His impact is huge.
deal game legs mind run solid sure swinging turn
I haven't really run on it very much. I have to get my legs back under me. When you go to swinging the bat, that's a different deal because you turn (on the knee). There's some things I want to make sure I'm solid doing in my own mind before I got out there in a game situation.
felt finally sixth
but I finally got around on one in the sixth that felt good.
goes great swinging underrated
He's really been an underrated part of this team. Swinging the bat, not just in the playoffs, you can see and tell the way he goes about his business, the way he has at-bats, he's going to be a great player.
advantage baseball league major trying
I don't think Major League Baseball should have the right to tell us about the roof. They're trying to take the home-field advantage from us. I don't think that's right.
almost call good ready sit week
He's tremendous. The thing that makes him so good is he can sit over there for a week with almost no activity, and when you call upon him, he's always ready to go.
best good stuff winner
He's always tough, and he's a 20-game winner for a reason. He's a good pitcher. I don't think he had his best stuff tonight, but he had good enough stuff to win.
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.
confidence game hopefully last mean obviously pick series seven six sweep tough win won
To win the series we obviously had to win at least one game here. It was big for our confidence, not having won one here last year, to pick up this victory. But that doesn't mean we're going to sweep them when we go home. They're a tough team. This is going to be a long series. I think it's going to go six or seven games. Hopefully we'll come out on top.