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Oct. 9 Jeff Banister postgame interview
- Updated: October 10, 2016
Q. How shocked to see your season end like this?
JEFF BANISTER: That’s obviously — I think that question goes without saying, especially when you enter — it’s my belief, our belief, that anytime that you enter Spring Training, it’s one mission and that’s to win and play for an opportunity to win a World Series. And so that’s been our mission all along. Disappointing in a sense that we’re not going to continue to play. Uphill battle, down two, down early in this game, but I’m most proud of how our guys continued to battle.Q. What was Colby’s problems getting going?
JEFF BANISTER: Yeah, look, he missed middle, missed middle-down. Seemed like the slider early was not as effective. He was missing with the slider and had to come in with a fastball. I think the home run early was a missed slider over the middle of the plate. So just a situation where he couldn’t get in rhythm and get his pitches going and make the pitches that he needed to.Q. What was your feeling about pushing Matt Bush into the third inning? And what was your feeling on the last play of the game?
JEFF BANISTER: I’ll take the first one. As far as Matt Bush is concerned, we talked about that. He came to me early and said, look, I’m strong, I’m ready to go, my arm feels good. Early in the year we pushed him a little bit into that not quite that high of a pitch count. But situation of …
