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
fortunate works
He's puffed up pretty good. I think he'll be able to play on Friday. We're fortunate to have the off-day tomorrow. That works well.
ball game stayed
I don't know how we stayed in the ball game as long as we did.
bats pitching today
I don't know how much of that was their pitching today and how much was we didn't get the bats on the ball,
attacks definitely difference gives level noise perhaps roof zone
I don't know if there's a difference in approach, but there's definitely a difference in what he does here. He attacks the zone much better here. He has in the past. ... Perhaps the noise level here, with the roof closed, is what gives him a big plus.
leg
I didn't know how his leg was going to be, ... He said it was OK, but you never know when he hasn't pitched in 11 days. He was masterful today.
exactly pitch
He tolerated it pretty well. That's exactly want we wanted him to do, the 40-50 pitch range.
command good looked struggled
He struggled with his command a little bit. He looked good on some pitches, real good on some pitches. Then he struggled a little bit.
ball count deep good looked mound plate settled seven six threw
He threw the ball well. I was very pleased. He had good mound presence, threw the ball over the plate and after probably six or seven pitches, it looked like he said, 'Alright I'm going at them,' and he did. He just settled right in. He didn't go deep in the count a lot of times. He went right after them and made them do something.
ball good threw
He threw the ball well. He was experimenting with different things, and I think that's a good thing.
ball fastball guy nice primarily stayed threw
He threw the ball really well and had a pretty nice fastball that he located pretty good, and he just stayed with it. It was an usually pitched game. You don't see a guy use primarily fastballs, but he was locating it where he wanted to and he stayed with it.
ball balls behind breaking focused gave good guy hitters home lapse mental threw throw
He threw the ball down, threw some good breaking balls and went after the hitters pretty good. He had a little mental lapse there. He got behind on a guy and gave up a home run. If we keep him focused and throw like that he'll be fine.
ball looked looks threw throwing
He threw all of his pitches, and I thought he looked like he was throwing the ball pretty good. I think he looks like he's OK.
proverbial
He's the proverbial day-to-day. We'll have to see how he is as we go along.
ball continues locate looked throwing
He's looked very good, he's throwing the ball very well. If he continues to locate his pitches, he's going to be a factor.