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
afford almost strikes three walk
I like what you see there. And he strikes out almost three times as many as he walks, so he can afford to walk somebody, because he's going to strike you out, too.
brad failed feeling hit knows walk
You have to let Edmonds hit the ball. You can't walk him. Brad knows that. We were feeling pretty good, but you have to play every out. We failed to play every out tonight.
ball brad hit knows mistake next walking
The mistake we make is walking Edmonds. You have to let Edmonds hit the ball in the next count. You can't walk him, and Brad knows that.
matter walk
make your pitches, (it) doesn't matter if we walk him.
high mistake walking
It's terrible. You're high as a kite. The mistake we make is walking Edmonds.
drove four noticed three walked
I noticed they walked him four times on Sunday. But I also noticed that (Jim) Edmonds drove in three runs.
ball given good hit rather runs supposed walk
He did what he was supposed to do, I'd rather see two runs given up because he's making them hit the ball and put in play than walk guys. To me, that's a good outing.
good guys job laid last learning needed process somewhat start walk
I don't think these are guys that you walk in and say, 'Hey, you need to start doing this now.' He needed to be somewhat laid back. He did a good job in the learning process last year.
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.
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.
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.