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
ball decent fastball gets location outcome pitches plate sharp showing swayed throw
I'm necessarily swayed by the outcome more than by what he does with his pitches. If he's showing pretty decent location with his ball and he's able to throw his pitches over the plate and use something other than his fastball when he gets behind, that will be good. He was sharp today, he went right after hitters.
bat certainly defensive ends foot gets might plus showing situations swing
He's certainly a plus defensive player, and if he ends up showing he can swing the bat ... and he gets his foot in the door, it might be one of those situations where you can't get him out.
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.
sure
I'm sure he'll be fine. It's just bruised. I wanted to be cautious.
front
I'm ticked. This is embarrassing to play like this in front of our hometown.
hitting job ticked
I'm ticked off because we're not hitting well. We're just not getting the job done.
andy bit figure five fortunate games knew roger rotten season
I knew we weren't a 15-under-.500 team. When the season started, I thought we were probably five games over .500. Then, if we got a little bit lucky, I thought we could be 10 games over. I think we're fortunate to be 14 over .500 because we didn't figure on Andy Pettitte (17-9, 2.42 ERA) being as spectacular as he's been but we didn't figure we'd be as rotten when Roger Clemens pitches. Go figure.
I like our position. But we still have to play the games.
against games good
I like him. I think he's going to be a real good pitcher. He's pitched two real good games against us.
absolute poor rotten
It's some pretty poor hitting, absolute rotten hitting.
discipline hitters learned plain stroke
It's not a God-given talent. There's some hitters that have an opposite-field stroke that can do it, but it's a learned skill. It's just discipline and doing it. That's all it is. Plain and simple.
negative nor
It's not a distraction, nor is it a negative factor.
blow turned turning
The big blow was Willy. For me, that turned out to be the game's turning point.
bit blow pickle today
The big blow today was Willy. They had us in a little bit of a pickle there.