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
good guys hits win worst
We need them in the worst way, and we need to win them in a pretty good fashion, too. These guys have come in here. They've come up with the big hits when they need them. They look like they're comfortable, and we need to put something in their heads, make them think about us a little bit.
electric everybody good location tonight
Well, as everybody can see, he's got an electric fastball. He's got a good slider. He has a very good curveball, and his location tonight was excellent.
electric everybody good location tonight
Well, as everybody can see, he's got an electric fastball, ... He's got a good slider. He has a very good curveball, and his location tonight was excellent.
ball chance failed
We had every chance to win, but failed to put the ball in play.
base hits
We haven't come up with a lot of base hits like that, that I can recall.
case closer manage spread
Usually, over the years, I manage to keep the closer pretty well spread out, ... That's not been the case this year.
good
Wagner's tough. We all know how good he is. We just buckled down.
becomes besides brad catcher difficult gone guy looking offense pitchers second sit work
We have traditionally gone with only a second catcher and I'm looking to do that again. The guy becomes important because he's the only guy you have besides Brad. He's also a guy who's going to have to sit around a lot because Brad is going to play a lot. He's got to work with the pitchers and we'd like to get some offense out of him as well, but that's difficult to do because he doesn't play much.
games saw stage stepped super tonight took trouble unusual winning
What you saw tonight is not unusual for Roy. This was a big stage and we've had trouble winning games in this park. He stepped up, and took control, and did a super job.
saw tonight unusual
What you saw tonight is not unusual for Roy,
absolutely control dominated large saw stepped tonight took
What you saw tonight is not unusual. Boy, he stepped up large for us tonight and just took control of the ballgame. He just absolutely dominated the game.
absolutely control dominated large saw stepped tonight took
What you saw tonight is not unusual, ... Boy, he stepped up large for us tonight and just took control of the ballgame. He just absolutely dominated the game.
saw somehow typical
What you saw is some of our typical games. And we managed to somehow get through it and we just didn't eke it out this time.
expecting guys pitching pressure
What you're expecting from those guys is always pitching in pressure situations,