Phil Garner
Phil Garner
Philip Mason Garneris an American former baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as an infielder with the Oakland Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Astros, Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants from 1973 to 1988. He was manager of the Astros from July 14, 2004 to August 27, 2007, leading Houston to a World Series appearance in 2005...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth30 April 1949
CityJefferson City, TN
ball clutch played sound
They got the clutch hits. They played fundamentally sound and got the ball in the air.
careful far hit straight third throw tricky wall
You don't want to make the first out (at third base), and that's the tricky part about our ballpark. When the ball's hit well off that left-field wall and if it comes straight down, you have to be careful because it's not that far of a throw to third.
game position
You don't want to get down to a position (in which you need Lidge). It's also a game you don't want to let go.
ball best dig hole last looked played rest turned
You don't want to dig yourself a hole we can't get out of. It looked like we'd done that last year, and it turned out we played our best ball the last part of May through the rest of the year.
ball games hot last time unless week win
You don't want everyone hot all at the same time unless it's the last week of the season. You need to be able to win ball games without everyone being hot.
case conversation decided good jeff maybe ready rest shoulder strong taking year
There was some conversation about maybe taking the rest of the year off and rehabbing his shoulder and getting it strong over the winter. It was Jeff that decided he wanted to do everything he could to get ready to go this year just in case something good happened.
again doubt leg
There was no doubt that he could give this kind of performance, but you didn't know where his leg was going to be ... He had been working OK, but he was masterful again today.
doubt type
There was no doubt that he can give this type of performance,
ended good great grew hurry kids last matter playing starting stepped team truth year
There were a whole lot of things last year that made me nervous. Starting off last season, I did not think we had a good enough team to get to the playoffs, and the truth of the matter is the kids all stepped up and grew up in a hurry and we ended up playing great ball.
next time whatever
I told him to take whatever time he needed, to come back when he's ready, ... That may be tomorrow, that may be the next day or the next day after that.
bad chance meets
I told him it would be better if he just meets us in Houston. There's a chance he wouldn't even make it in. We shouldn't be in too bad of shape.
caught chavez difficult might playing playoff staff
It might be a little more difficult to get (Quintero) a whole lot of playing time, ... Chavez has had playoff experience, and he's caught our whole staff more than Quintero.
above franchise means objective stay
It means that the franchise has been pretty successful. I don't think there are many franchises who play over .500 at this point. It's a pretty significant milestone. Our objective now is to just stay way above it.
composed might rattle seen tonight
It might some pitchers, and it didn't rattle Roy, ... I thought tonight he was as composed as I've ever seen him.