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
assumption batting doctors field program starts taking
We'll see what program the doctors want us to have him on. I'm under the assumption he'll be on the field taking grounders and taking batting practice. When he starts throwing, I don't know that yet. I think everything else is A-OK.
everybody gorilla innings nobody room scoring sitting starts talk trying wants
It's like that 600-pound gorilla sitting in the room that nobody wants to talk about. If you keep going too many innings without scoring runs, everybody starts trying to do too much in one bat. And that's when you get in trouble.
ok starts worry
The whole thing is OK. It's OK with the team. We don't have to worry about what he does in between starts because we know he does his work. It's evidenced by the way he pitches.
ball bat breaks cheers crazy crowd goes guy people rolls seen starts takes
I've never seen it where the crowd cheers as much when he breaks his bat and the ball rolls 10 feet. The place goes crazy. Most of the time, people go crazy when a guy takes a big swing, and they go 'Ooooh...' This guy, in our park, he nibbles one and everyone starts going nuts.
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.