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
anticipate ball beat bit burst call doubt exciting feet game hits incredible last realize rookie season seeing seven six thrown tired umpire win year
If he hits a ball hard, you can get him out. If he hits it soft, he'll beat it out every time. He has an incredible burst the last 15 feet or so. There have been six or seven times this season when an umpire will anticipate a little bit and call him out and then realize that he was safe. I got thrown out of a game or two because I got tired of seeing that. I don't know if he's going to win the rookie of the year or not, but there is no doubt he's an exciting player.
wants
If he wants to do that, I think he could.
felt ok
I felt that he would be OK (in that situation),
days debated good playing time today
I debated about playing him today because he had two days off. He'll hit, but it's a good time to have a day. He'll get going with the bat here soon, and I'll want to play him every day.
draw hope team
I'd hope the team would draw on his strength,
bat cautious hit hoped maybe mistake throw took
I'd hoped they would try to be cautious with him and maybe throw something up there and make a mistake and let him hit the ball. They took the bat out of his hands, which I hoped they wouldn't do.
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.