Brian Giles
Brian Giles
Brian Stephen Gilesis a former Major League Baseball outfielder. During his career he played for the Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates and San Diego Padres. The left-handed Giles was a two-time All-Star and had a career line of .291/.400/.502 with 287 home runs, 411 doubles, 1,078 run batted in, and 1,183 walks in 1,847 games...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth20 January 1971
CityEl Cajon, CA
balloons hit home mobility nice runs
It balloons up a little bit, ... There's enough mobility to play. It'd be nice if you got to hit home runs and didn't run the bases.
ball baseball brings competitor everybody game knows runs takes time win
Jake's the kind of competitor who knows every time he takes the ball that he's going to win a baseball game for his team, ... When he's pitching, one or two runs could win you a baseball game. Not everybody brings that to the table.
pitch played score though threat time
He'll be a presence. They're still not going to pitch to him, even though he hasn't played all year. But he's going to get on base. Any time you get on base, you're a threat to score a run.
counted people proud talking week
I know a lot of people are talking about our record. But I'm proud of what we've done. I think we've accomplished a lot. It's awesome. People counted us out every week and here we still are.
breaking bummer camp forward gives looking
It gives us some new energy. We were looking forward to breaking camp with him, and it was a bummer when he got hurt.
eddie helped keeping
Eddie helped me out in keeping on the same plane,
nice respond weird
It's weird how things worked. It's nice to respond after what happened.
add core couple good pieces
I think we have a good core here and if we add a couple of pieces here and there, I think we'll be right back in it.
fame fitting great hall job keeping last meant special three
The guy's going to the Hall of Fame, ... It meant a lot to have him out there. It's only fitting he got the last three outs. Trevor Hoffman's done a great job of keeping us together. It's a special moment.
amazes makeup says
The thing that amazes me most is he's only 24 years old. You don't have that makeup too often at that young an age. For him to go out and do what he did says a lot about him.
spill
That's OK. Just as long as they don't spill any of the beer.
accomplish count hand percent playing time
I want to be out there every day. You can count on one hand how many times you're 100 percent when you're playing every day. I'll take my time off when we accomplish what we want to accomplish.
timing toe
With my toe tap, I need the at-bats to get ready. It's a timing thing.
closing slowly
We're slowly closing this thing out, but it hasn't been easy,