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
great originally
When they originally made those changes, I didn't think it was necessarily a great move,
among fifth looking pitchers saying seven six starters three until
We have three young starters that we're looking at. That's why I'm saying I feel like we need 12 pitchers. You should not need 12 pitchers in the first six or seven days. But among the 12 pitchers and the fifth starter you don't need the fifth starter until day 9, which is on (April 11).
left proverbial slightly
Roger's left hamstring is slightly strained. He's the proverbial day-to-day. We'll have to see how he is as we go along,
division fifth game innings last ready roger saw series somewhere surprise taken
Roger is fine. He's fine. He's ready and able to go. . . . You saw him in the last game in the Division Series and he had his spikes on somewhere in the fifth inning. And if it had taken 10 innings or 20, he would have pitched 10 or 20. That wouldn't surprise me at all.
fifth game pitching roger
Roger Clemens is pitching the fifth game right now,
anybody man might prepared rocket seen thrown whatever
Rocket might have thrown 10, 20 innings. I think he was prepared to do whatever it took. And that's the way the man is. I've never seen anybody like him. He's amazing.
pick scientific
Pick 'em out of a hat. We just need somebody. Nothing scientific in the formula.
best good players position terms three
For us, it's the best one out of three right now. It doesn't get any easier. We're in good position in terms of our pitching, our players and everything. But the job's still got to get done.
best three
For us, it's the best one out of three now. It doesn't get any easier.
bit close dance suffering
For us it's long suffering -- 44 years of getting close and not getting to the big dance has been a little bit frustrating.
close dance everybody involved wonderful
For us, 44 years of getting close and not getting to the big dance has been frustrating, ... So this is a wonderful accomplishment for our city, for our organization, everybody that's been involved in it.
care worry
If we take care of our business, we don't have to worry about the other teams, what they're doing.
bit couple games human looked pick
He's had a couple of games when he actually looked a little bit human - but sometimes we have to pick him up, too. Sometimes, you have to outscore the other team.
job super
He was dominating. He did a super job for us.