Oct. 6 Jeff Banister postgame interview

Q. How unexpected was this, what happened today?JEFF BANISTER: I mean, obviously when you get your No. 1 guy out there, you don’t really envision that. Combination of a couple of things. Just their approach, pretty solid approach against Hamels. And then after the line drive off of Beltre’s glove looked like he got in to trying to make a better pitch. And then the ball back at him, obviously was a reaction play. They’re always going to react. If it gets through there, we’re probably out of the inning. If he catches it we’re out of the inning. However it didn’t work out that way. And the Tulowitzki ball, a long way to run. We’re playing him to pull but solid approach. He drove the ball in the right-center gap and not real sure of the relationship with Desi and the wall, but we’ve seen him make that catch. And it would have been a great catch. We just didn’t come up with it.Q. You did see Hamels struggle in September, he had an ERA over 5. Were there things you say today early that said, I just saw this in September?JEFF BANISTER: The challenge for me is the first two innings he came out and was in control, control of all three of his — the fastball, the cutter, the sinker and the 4-seamer. And then it did seem to get away from him. And still one pitch away from being out of that inning. I think the big blow was a triple. But to say that they’re comparable, I’m not sure I’ll go that far. But, look, this is a big-game pitcher and has been. And you’ve got to trust that …

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