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
clicking seemed start
We seemed to start clicking pretty well when we made that move.
bases biggest hate love seeing seems teams tells trouble
That tells the story. That seems to be our biggest problem. You hate seeing the bases loaded. Most teams love seeing the bases loaded. We seem to have a little trouble with it.
bases biggest hate loaded love nobody seeing seems teams tells trouble
That tells the story. That seems to be our biggest problem. We hate seeing the bases loaded. Most teams love seeing the bases loaded with nobody out. We seem to have a little trouble with it.
bases break fought love nobody seeing seem teams trouble
Most teams love seeing the bases loaded, nobody out. We seem to have a little trouble with it. We fought in the game, though. We had other opportunities, perhaps, to do some things. We just couldn't break through.
feeling hope major ok red seems
If I say I am concerned, it seems like there's a red flag. There are no red flags. I just hope it's OK and I hope it's getting better and that he's feeling good. I don't see that this is a major issue.
gave seemed trouble
It wasn't too pretty. We were in trouble the whole night, it seemed like. We couldn't find the plate. When we did we gave up some hits.
clearly feels groove maybe mound rocket seemed sticky
Clearly he wasn't the Rocket that we've been seeing, ... He's fine. He feels fine. But I think maybe the sticky part of the mound got to him a little bit. It just seemed he never really got in a groove and never really got comfortable.
break came felt fought good hard hit lights orlando point seemed until
Gallo's been lights out, he's been good. We fought hard in the game. We seemed to have some other opportunities. ... We just couldn't break through until Orlando came up with the big hit for us. Normally, when we got to that point of the game, it's pretty solid. I felt pretty good at that point.
aggressive seem strike
We didn't seem aggressive in the strike zone.
couple last louis played seem
That's unbelievable. That's what St. Louis has done so well the last couple of years. They seem to have played real well in our division.
calmed came confident game good improvement last major matured saw seemed situations year
He pitched well, of course, the year before. And last year I saw some major improvement in him. I thought he calmed down. I thought he came into the game with a real good game plan. I thought he executed his game plans. To me, he matured a lot last year. He seemed more confident on the mound. He pitched in some big situations and he got some outs in some big situations.
along becoming bit chance fail gotten letting luxury might platoon player seem stretch type
I don't see him as a platoon player by any stretch of the imagination, and in other circumstances, he might have gotten a chance to play every day, and you would have seem more of this type of player every day. We just didn't have the luxury of letting him fail a little bit along the way to becoming the player that he is.
drive hard hit seems shut somebody stupid
How stupid can it get? You just keep getting shut out. It's just stupid. It's hard to get shut out in today's game. It just seems like somebody 's going to get a hit to drive in a run.
certainly favor fresh game good lead matter mound roy score third until
I never feel comfortable until the game is over no matter what the score is, but you certainly feel good with Roy on the mound when you have a good lead and you have a fresh bullpen. You feel a lot of things are in your favor but we couldn't get that third strike.