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
guys home sent
We sent him home because we didn't want him around the guys today. We think he's going to be OK.
figure game gets gives guy nice ninth rotation start team threw won year
Was that his ninth win? That's pretty good. You've got a guy who didn't figure in your rotation at the start of the year and when he gets in he's won more than he's lost, so that's pretty good. He pitched a nice crisp game tonight. He threw strikes, he gets ahead. That gives a team a lift.
anyone case game realize
Tomorrow's game is the most important we'll play all season, in case anyone didn't realize that.
basically couple ready
We're basically ready to go. We just have to make a couple decisions.
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.
electric everybody good location tonight
Well, as everybody can see, he's got an electric fastball, ... He's got a good slider. He has a very good curveball, and his location tonight was excellent.
electric everybody good location tonight
Well, as everybody can see, he's got an electric fastball. He's got a good slider. He has a very good curveball, and his location tonight was excellent.
great originally
When they originally made those changes, I didn't think it was necessarily a great move,
complete mutual series thursday
There is (another) mutual day off, but it's at our ballpark. It's the Thursday off day after they complete a three-game series on Wednesday.
draw
We can draw on what we've had to go through,
light maybe
We can maybe see the light at the end of the tunnel.
feeling good present
When he's well-rested and he's feeling good and the circumstances present themselves, I'll do that.
games three worries
What worries me is that we've had three games that are pretty much stinkers right here lately,
expecting guys pitching pressure
What you're expecting from those guys is always pitching in pressure situations,