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Oct. 19 Dave Roberts postgame interview
- Updated: October 20, 2016
Q. It looked like Julio had really good stuff in the early going. How much did that bunt sort of get him out of his game?
DAVE ROBERTS: You know what? Actually, yeah, I thought he had really good stuff. Just that inning got away from us, but it was just the bunt base hit and a couple flares. For me, the way he was throwing the baseball, he got ahead 0-2, and then left another pitch, the flare, then he gives up another base hit to Contreras. So it’s one of those things where I thought Julio was throwing the baseball well. And you know, you get to a spot where I think the stuff is really good, and he’s a victim of some plays we didn’t make for him. He got Russell to fly out weakly in his first at-bat, so I just felt that you’ve got to give Julio an opportunity to make pitches and left a 2-0 fastball up out over.Q. How surprised were you that that replay wasn’t overturned? And how big of a shift do you think that is? It would have been the first run of the game.
DAVE ROBERTS: You know what? I was pretty certain that it was going to get reversed. But those guys in New York, they’ve got a job to do, and obviously they saw it the other way.Q. Following up on that, Dave, from a standpoint of momentum and the way we know that it can turn a game, do you look back at this game as a game that could have been very different if Adrian is safe, or one that ultimately was the eight-run game it ended up being?
DAVE ROBERTS: Yeah, I’m a big believer in momentum and certain plays. You look back tonight and some plays shifted the momentum. To get a lead would have been big for us, and I thought we put ourselves in a position to get to Lackey. But he escaped. You know, credit to those guys that once we kept him in the ballgame, they got the hits when they needed.Q. Turner getting picked off in the first inning and four errors tonight. I know some were overthrows. But was it disappointing not to play a clean game out there tonight?
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