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
builds certain fans hump suffering trying
There's something to be said for organizations that get here often; it builds a certain mystique. In our case, we thought we were getting over the hump once, but 20 years later, here we are still trying to get over that hump. We've had some suffering fans for 44 years.
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(I was) trying to get something on the board. Luke Scott's a low-ball hitter, and (Willis) is a low-ball pitcher. I like the matchup. It didn't work so well.
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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.
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I thought in the fourth and fifth innings he really battled himself trying to find his release point and got high in the zone and couldn't get the breaking ball where he wanted to.
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Chris got more big hits. That triple was an icebreaker. We've been trying to find some way to generate offence the past couple of weeks, done whatever we can.
chris couple generate offence past triple trying whatever
Chris got more big hits. That triple was an icebreaker, ... We've been trying to find some way to generate offence the past couple of weeks, done whatever we can.
although guys hard might pitch roger runs scoring shame trouble trying
We've had trouble scoring runs this season, period. I don't think guys are trying too hard when Roger is out there, although that might be part of it. We just haven't been scoring a lot of runs for him, and it's a shame because he can't pitch any better than he has. He has just been unbelievable.
although guys hard might pitch roger runs scoring shame trouble trying
We've had trouble scoring runs this season, period, ... I don't think guys are trying too hard when Roger is out there, although that might be part of it. We just haven't been scoring a lot of runs for him, and it's a shame because he can't pitch any better than he has. He has just been unbelievable.
bit trying
Oh, I'm just trying to get through tonight. We'll think about that a little bit later. Right now, I don't know what we'll do on Saturday.
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It swelled up on him and that was probably a little factor in the game. He was trying to pitch through it.
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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.
count trying
I'm not trying to keep anything from you. You just don't count him out.
against ball bat care decent few good job pitches swinging team threw
We just had a lot of Dontrelle Willis tonight, more than I'd care to see, ... Brandon (Backe) threw the ball well. He had a lot of good pitches and only a few mistakes. That was a decent job against a team that is really swinging the bat well.
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We just had a lot of Dontrelle Willis tonight, more than I'd care to see.