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
excitement generate helps noise
It does generate a lot of noise and it's a lot of fun. And I think we play for that. We play for that excitement and that noise. It helps us a little bit.
bottom closed excitement generate line noise open percent played somebody strange
We've played with it closed most of the year, I want to say about 85 percent of the time, ... I find it strange that somebody would say we have to open it now. But bottom line is, I think that with it closed, it does generate a lot of noise and it's a lot of fun. We play for that excitement and that noise.
bottom closed excitement generate helps noise open played somebody strange
We've played with it closed most of the year. I find it strange that somebody would say we have to have it open now, ... Bottom line, it does generate a lot of noise and it's a lot of fun. We play for that excitement and noise. It helps us a little bit.
attacks definitely difference gives level noise perhaps roof zone
I don't know if there's a difference in approach, but there's definitely a difference in what he does here. He attacks the zone much better here. He has in the past. ... Perhaps the noise level here, with the roof closed, is what gives him a big plus.
ball base good job less putting runner third
When we got a runner at third base and less than two outs, we didn't do a very good job of putting the ball in play.
ball five guy hurt last six struck third
What hurt was, we struck out for five of the last six outs, ... We didn't put the ball in play, and we had a guy on third base. And that's what hurt us.
ball singles win
We got two two-out singles from Berkman to win the ball game.
general leave
We're going to leave that to our general manager. Sure, I'd like to have Clemens back.
couple days fool fortunate ground inventory last lose nice personal pick streak time
We're going to have to take a personal inventory as a team. This is September, and this is no time to fool around. We need to pick it up a little bit. It is fortunate to lose two ballgames the last couple of days after having a nice streak and not lose any ground to the leaders.
inventory personal
We're going to have to take a personal inventory as a team,
bats certainly driving gone good guys offensive problem weeks zone
We're just not getting guys on base, and we're certainly not driving them in when we do. Everybody's frustrated. We've gone two weeks now without really much of an offensive threat. The real problem is that we're not getting the bats in the zone very good right now.
basically couple ready
We're basically ready to go. We just have to make a couple decisions.
When he got in the big jam, he got out of it.
biggest game next tomorrow work
We've still got work to do. Tomorrow is our biggest game of the year. Then, the next day will probably be even bigger.