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
approach good looked plate pleased second solid
After that first at-bat, and then the second at-bat was a good at-bat. He looked very good, very solid at the plate tonight. We are pleased to see his approach at the plate.
behind bike couple given looked pick plate playing position pro ride smooth
It's not been a position he's been playing a lot in pro ball, so I wouldn't say it's a given that you pick it right back up, but once you get on a bike you still know how to ride it, I would think. He's looked pretty smooth the couple of times he's been behind the plate for me.
cannot coverage everybody major mark question
It's an either/or. I don't think it's a major (question). That's not a major question. It's a major question mark for everybody else, but there's coverage there (if Bagwell cannot play). One way or the other, it will work.
amazing ball hit
It's amazing we were in the ball game. We didn't hit the ball good.
defensive glass great half happened needed plays run
It's happened because we had great pitching, great defensive plays and we managed to come up with a run when we needed it sometimes. The glass is half full, not half empty.
across dead fastball hitter locate pitch took
It was a pitch that just took off across the plate. (Sanders) is a dead fastball hitter and we all know that, but if we locate it where we want to, we'll be all right. We just didn't get it where we wanted to.
ball control exactly good job pitch surprises takes year
It was not a reconstruction on the elbow, so I thought he'd come back from it and pitch well this year, so I'm not surprised. What surprises me is that his control had been is as good as it has been. Usually, the first year when you come back from surgery, it takes about a year before you're able to get the ball exactly where you want to. But he's done a pretty good job of locating pitches.
ball behind far gives good job letting nice receives
I'm going to take a good look at him on that. He receives the ball nicely. He's gives a nice target. He's down, he's not jumpy behind the plate. He does a good job as far as just letting the ball come to him.
absolute poor rotten
It's some pretty poor hitting, absolute rotten hitting.
discipline hitters learned plain stroke
It's not a God-given talent. There's some hitters that have an opposite-field stroke that can do it, but it's a learned skill. It's just discipline and doing it. That's all it is. Plain and simple.
negative nor
It's not a distraction, nor is it a negative factor.
game ground late middle super zone
I thought Wandy did a super job, ... He must have had some late movement, because he got a lot of ground balls. But he was down in the zone a lot, and in the middle part of the game he went up the zone a little bit.
anybody few five four ground guys swing uniform
Just get the uniform on, come out, take a few ground balls, swing the bat, just like anybody else. I don't, for the first four or five days, look for guys to be going full-bore.
both days ok played rule saying straight teams
I thought the rule was if you played 19 straight days and it went over 19 straight ? if you played 20 straight days ? you had to have the OK of the players. If we played on May 8, that would put both teams on 20 straight days. They're saying now it's 20 straight days, and the 21st is when you have to get an OK (from the players). That's probably new.