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
certainly depth pieces
We certainly have depth and that's one of the plusses and we have pieces we can move.
business challenged competitor gave great powerful roy tonight top true
We see a true competitor here with Roy. And the way he went about his business tonight gave us great confidence. He went after them. He challenged them. They are powerful from top to bottom, and Roy didn't back down.
ball figure win
you figure out a way to come out and try to win a ball game.
best fans goal includes losers though winners
Even though we didn't get the one big goal that we wanted, there are no losers here. We are all winners ? and that includes the best fans in America.
good guys knew mind people thrown
Biggio made his mind up. He knew what he wanted to do. Most guys get thrown out if people make good throws, and they made two.
broke care good job kept saying worry
Astacio did a good job today. A real good job today. Astacio kept them down and he kept us in the ballgame, and then we broke it open. ... We've been saying it all along, if we take care of business, we don't have to worry about the other teams.
ahead good next point tying
The good point is that we got the tying run, and then we go right ahead with the next one,
clicking seemed start
We seemed to start clicking pretty well when we made that move.
chances generate step three tonight took
We need to generate a little more something. Tonight they took it to us. We've got three more chances to do something to them, and we need to step up to do it.
bit command needs pitches
We need to see a little bit better command of his pitches. He's been up in the zone. He needs to get all his pitches low.
fortunate game ground lose three
We were fortunate to lose two out of three and not lose any ground . . . (Monday) is the most important game we will play this year.
adhere baseball call classic yankee
While the World Baseball Classic is going on, we do not have to adhere to that. We'll call it the Yankee rule. They never did adhere to it, anyway.
bad bit hammer hurt missing pitching played small
We've played a little bit of small ball, it's just not winning. We're making some bad pitches, and they're not missing them, either. When we make mistakes, they hammer them. ... We've been hurt by the long ball, which is uncharacteristic of our pitching staff.
board quickly
We wanted to get one on the board as quickly as possible.