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
appeared ball behind good throwing
It appeared to be long innings, and we appeared to be getting behind guys. But they were throwing the ball in pretty good location.
care
Whole lot of Dontrelle Willis. A little more than I care to see.
signs
We just went over signs again. Just a refresher course.
talk
You'll have to talk to him about that. He'll be here tomorrow.
scouts trust
You just have to trust your scouts in that regard.
accept fact high hit
You just have to accept the fact that you're probably not going to hit as high as you know you can,
far
You can be so close, ... yet so far away.
along course games shown
Willy has shown that he can play in these big games all along the course of the season, ... He's come up big for us.
came last
When I thought we were going to take off, we didn't. When I thought we were going to crater, we didn't. We came down to the last game, and we did what we had to do.
base easiest filled hit home run runs score stolen team ways
My idea of manufacturing a run is for someone to hit a home runs, that's the easiest way I know of how to manufacture a run, ... You don't always have a team filled with home run hitters. When you don't, you have to score runs in other ways and the stolen base is one of those ways.
command seen struggled
That was a surprise. We haven't seen that from Oswalt. He struggled with his command and just didn't look comfortable in that first inning. This is very much uncharacteristic of the way he's pitched.
applaud ball beats bunch great guy hanging next pitches takes tough
That was a great at-bat. You never know if that has anything to do with the next guy, but when a guy makes a bunch of pitches on you, and he nubs the ball to shortstop and he beats it out, I think it takes something out of you. You've got to applaud Willy for hanging tough in that at-bat.
extremely
That's the kind of thing that's going to make your lineup extremely tough. You can't get through them all.
luke trying work
(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.