Craig Biggio
Craig Biggio
Craig Alan Biggiois an American former second baseman and catcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career from 1988 through 2007 for the Houston Astros. A seven-time National LeagueAll-Star often regarded as the greatest all-around player in Astros history, he is the only player ever to be named an All-Star at both catcher and second base. With longtime teammates Jeff Bagwell and Lance Berkman, he formed the core of the "Killer B's" who led Houston to six playoff...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth14 December 1965
CitySmithtown, NY
I can't tell you how happy I am. It's been a long time.
That's the first time I've ever faced Billy. He threw me a fastball in, then inside again. The last pitch was 99 mph, so I could have popped it up.
That's a baseball mom. I thought it was pretty admirable of my mom. She said she understands the amount of injuries we have around here, and the time of year it is, and she felt bad about it.
It's a good day. Hopefully, we'll play another month and really enjoy it.
It's a great feeling, a tremendous feeling. But we haven't accomplished anything yet.
It's a huge home run under the circumstances the last couple of days, with what my mom went through. She wanted me to get here and not miss any games.
It's unbelievable even to say the World Series and that we're going right now. So, yeah, I don't know how else to express it. It's a pretty emotional day.
The biggest thing with Andy was getting his velocity back. Everybody in here knew that once he did, you're going to see what you saw before. When he's throwing that cutter at 83-84-85 miles an hour last year and getting away with it then, you could only imagine what it was going to be like when he started getting it up to 90-91.
It's indescribable, I've waited so long for this to happen,
It was just Rocket being Rocket. He was just adding to his legendary status.
There've been a lot of great players to play the game of baseball that never got an opportunity to go to the World Series, ... and I was hoping that I wasn't going to be another one of them.
About 99.9 percent of the time he comes in, and it's game over. He's nasty, he's got good stuff. He's still got it. You tip your hat to any guy that can square up and catch up to it.
It's just fun coming to the park now. The fans are pretty pumped up, too.
It's a tough loss. We've been through a lot of adversity all season long. We've been able to bounce back and come back.