More than anything, Mariano has taught me how to hold a cut fastball, and how to be a pitcher, how to be a complete pitcher, |
More than puzzled, I'm ticked off. I had two outs and I couldn't get the third one. |
My arm feels good and I hope that continues, because I don't want to feel what I felt last year again. That's the first time that's ever happened to me. |
My back bothered me just a little bit. But the reason I got hit was that I was high in the strike zone. With their team, they've been making contact the first two games of this series pretty hard, and today they took advantage of everything that I made mistakes on in the strike zone. But my back had really nothing to do with it. I just didn't execute pitches. |
My back is fine; the cold weather had nothing to do with it and the way I felt physically had nothing to do with it. I didn't execute the pitches. |
No matter what, it's going to be a big start, |
Right now, as in years past, I try to experiment with everything early and I feel like I do have everything right now. I'm not holding anything back. Even though it's early in spring I feel like I'm in a good spot right now. |
Right now, it's hard to tell, because [the back] is very tight right now, ... With an off-day tomorrow, I think I should make my next start, but it is hard to tell. |
That hurt a lot, |
The first three innings it felt like I had a groove going. Then I started elevating and I can't attribute it to anything. But when I started missing high, they were hitting it. |
The next one is a start I'm looking forward to, hopefully to put this one behind me. |
The offense has been great to me all year and given me great support. |
There's no comparison. In spring training it was more tightness. This is more pain in the back. |
They got me five runs and that was enough. |
They're going to make a lot of plays for me. I support them 100 percent. |