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
bat continues good nice spring swing training
Munson had a nice spring training. If he continues to swing the bat like he's been doing in spring training and give us a threat, then that's a good thing.
against bat elevate guy head means throws
My bat head was there, which means I can get to the pitch. But against a guy who throws that hard, you need to get your bat down because you can't elevate the pitch.
control game turned
No, I don't like the way that game turned out, but we still control our destiny.
chance good last memory obviously switch
Obviously my last memory was not a good one. We'd like to have a chance to switch that around.
believe good guys leads maybe nobody players pressure projected respond smart surprise
Nobody would've projected him to be as good as he's been. It also leads you to believe that as smart as we are sometimes, maybe it's better sometimes to let players play just to see. Sometimes guys surprise you. Sometimes you misread a player, you just don't know how he's going to respond under pressure situations.
stuck top
No, ... He snow-coned it. Stuck to the top of his glove.
counting
We're not counting him out, but this is a day-to-day situation,
matter walk
make your pitches, (it) doesn't matter if we walk him.
came felt man
Let's just say I felt he was the man to go to. And he came through for us big.
based basically expected feels last throwing
Let's see how he feels tomorrow. That's about kind of what I expected based on (the fact) he's been throwing off and on every other day basically for the last week.
andy lost seven
Lost in all that was Andy pitched seven shutout innings.
best good great last shows year
Last year shows really how good he is. I wouldn't say he was at his best physically, and he had a great year.
best bit fact fun gave home laugh matter monstrous next
The fact of the matter is, he gave up a pretty monstrous home run, ... Best thing we can do is laugh about it, go on with it to the next day and have a little bit of fun with it.
felt good less might obviously pressure runner struggled third took
We've struggled so much in getting the runner in from third with less than two outs, so it obviously felt good doing that. I think it took the pressure off everybody. Might have led to the three-run homer, too.