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
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.
clearly factor game trying work
I thought he was going to be able to pitch, but it clearly swelled up on him. I think it was probably a little factor in the game in the way he was trying to work with it.
factor
I think it was a factor for Andy. It started to swell up, ... Unbelievable.
accept fact high hit
You just have to accept the fact that you're probably not going to hit as high as you know you can,
factor pitch trying
It swelled up on him and that was probably a little factor in the game. He was trying to pitch through it.
break giving good pitchers score
We have to break out. We have to score some runs. Our pitchers have been giving us good enough games. We have to buckle down.
type
When you play these type of games, they're going to be close. That's why you've got to know what you're doing and execute. We didn't execute.
crucial giving goes months pitch tend three
When you have 7, 8 and 9-inning guys, you tend to pitch them in such crucial points, ... When they give up a run, it usually hurts, but you can't go three months without giving up a run. Wheeler goes big stretches without giving up anything.
absolute change difficult faith field losing people personnel requires turn
When you go into an organization that's been losing and you try to change the culture, it's a difficult job. It requires absolute faith from ownership. You've got to do some things on the field with your personnel that people don't like. But you've got to do it if you're going to turn it around.
control good simple win
We've got to buckle down and play some good ball. We're still in control of our own desitny. If we can't win it, we can't win it. It's simple as that.
demon hanging
We've just got this demon hanging over our head, and it's a zero.
expect follow game medical orders plan position
We will follow the doctor's orders. Every day, we'll have a game plan that is a medical game plan for him so that we don't expect something from him or put him in a position that he shouldn't be in. We will follow the doctor's orders on this medical rehab, and then we'll see where he goes.
We're not 100%, but we're back. It's a boost.
asking counting kept whether
We kept counting over there, ... I was asking whether we would get another hit.