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
chance question send sent upset
No question about it, he's got to send him, ... I'd been upset if he hadn't sent him. If the throw's off at all, he's got a chance to be safe.
farther four hit home maybe outcome pitch spot stupid throw wait
After you see that he hit a three-run home run, that's what I'm saying. When you see the outcome of what happened, you say, 'Well, maybe we should've put up four (fingers),' ... I would be stupid to say, 'All right, wait a minute, let me back this up and see if I can't throw a pitch in a little better spot than that and see how much farther he can hit it.'
builds certain fans hump suffering trying
There's something to be said for organizations that get here often; it builds a certain mystique. In our case, we thought we were getting over the hump once, but 20 years later, here we are still trying to get over that hump. We've had some suffering fans for 44 years.
fighting work
There's something to be said for getting there and not winning. It does have a sense that you're not finished, that there's work undone, that there's still something you're fighting for.
bridges gives goes great kept points several standpoint time
There's several great points from our standpoint in that game. It was Backe's first time back, and he kept us in the ballgame. And Wandy Rodriguez, who has been a starter, he goes out and gives us one inning and kind of bridges our bullpen.
good jeff player question reasons soon
There's no question that there's some sentimentality involved, ... There's a lot of other reasons to have him be the DH, but I think the overriding reason is he's a good player and if the game's on the line, I'd just as soon have Jeff Bagwell up.
answer becomes everybody gorilla innings nice question room scoring start talk team tries
There's no question that 600-pound gorilla was in the room that no one wanted to talk about. If you keep going innings without scoring runs, everybody tries to do too much in one at-bat, and that's when you start to get into trouble. That's when it becomes a team slump. It was nice to answer in the first inning.
control full glass half
Is the glass half full or half empty, ... It's half full. We control our own destiny.
next spoke time tomorrow whatever
I spoke with (Everett) and things are going well. I told him to take whatever time he needs. And that could be tomorrow or the next day or the next.
schedule
I've long said the schedule is the most favorable,
brad catch maybe wear
I wanted to get him in, but I would like to have him maybe catch one guy, and that way when we get into these long stretches I won't wear Brad (Ausmus ) out.
bit felt good led might morgan pressure took
So that felt good when he did that, obviously. I think that took a little bit of pressure off everybody. It made Morgan feel a little better. Of course, it might have led to the three-run homer. Who knows?
believe needed offense picks pitching tonight win
Sometimes your offense picks up your pitching, and I do believe that our pitching will pick up our offense more often than it will let us down. Tonight we needed the offense and we had the offense. A win is a win.
beat bit guy happens
Sometimes, I like to see a guy get beat up a little bit and see how he reacts. I like to see what a guy does when that happens - 'cause you're going to get it every now and then.