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
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It was a little bit over the top, but a lot of guys have their styles. The thing of it is, we don't really have anybody on our team who does that. I understand guys have their individuality, but the way to answer that is to beat him.
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I didn't want to get in position where if you have another extra-inning ballgame you just don't have anybody to use.
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I'd just as soon us do what we do, ... I can get as upset with the umpires as anybody but on balance they do a terrific job. These are our best umpires, and it's not an exact science.
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Just get the uniform on, come out, take a few ground balls, swing the bat, just like anybody else. I don't, for the first four or five days, look for guys to be going full-bore.
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Rocket might have thrown 10, 20 innings. I think he was prepared to do whatever it took. And that's the way the man is. I've never seen anybody like him. He's amazing.
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He was better than anybody I had on my Detroit staff. He could have helped us.
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Guys usually have a very difficult time crossing the diamond in the infield. But he's extremely quick, as quick as anybody I've ever seen at turning a double play. That's unusual for a guy to have such a strong arm, who can throw the ball across the diamond and then move to second and immediately be able to change his arm angle.
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I feel a little bit more comfortable in the underdog world. I don't know how I feel in the dead role too much. There is a certain amount of satisfaction in proving people wrong. But the truth of the matter is, we did look dead. You can't fault anybody for writing what looks to be the truth.
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We just had a lot of Dontrelle Willis tonight, more than I'd care to see, ... Brandon (Backe) threw the ball well. He had a lot of good pitches and only a few mistakes. That was a decent job against a team that is really swinging the bat well.
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We just had a lot of Dontrelle Willis tonight, more than I'd care to see.
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We missed some pitches that we should have hit, and we expanded the (strike) zone sometimes when we probably shouldn't have. But the bottom line is they did a pretty good job of pitching against us.
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What's happening is we're getting timely hits and we're doing it from all parts of the lineup.
balls three
We had three balls that should have been caught,
good normally
We had the lead. When we get it, normally we keep it. We will. We're good at it. We've been doing it all year.