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
board days everybody names numbers party people today
You want to get everybody in on the party and make everybody feel good. Today was one of those days when people other than our big names put some numbers on the board for us. You've got to have days like that.
ball hit left
You've got to hit it to left field. If he hit the ball the other way, it probably wouldn't go. If you get it in that left-field lane, then it'll go.
keeping keeps
The man's amazing. He keeps on keeping on, doesn't he? Isn't he something?
across bad caught eyebrow mistaken nose plain players sweating takes turned umpire wiped
The umpire said he went to his mouth. It was a bad call. It was a mistaken call. It's unfortunate that the game, in my opinion, turned on that. You don't know what's going to happen, but it takes it out of the players hands. He did not go to his mouth. He was sweating profusely on his face. He wiped his eyebrow (and came) across his nose and caught it on his face. It was a bad call, plain and simple.
against easy games guys recall telling
These guys are tough, I'm telling you. I don't recall any easy games against them. But we'll take it because it was important.
call hope knows nobody pays quietly
You could call it that. I hope nobody knows about him for a while. If nobody pays attention, you can quietly go about doing your job.