It was kind of a cut and dried game. Three mistakes and two walks. That's what hurt me and they're a good team. They score runs in bunches and they took advantage of my mistakes. |
It was kind of a wake-up call for me when Lou told the press that if I didn't turn it around, they may find somebody else, |
It was kind of cut and dry. Three mistakes I made that were up and two walks that hurt me. They took advantage of my mistakes. |
It was more important for me to get stretched out. |
It's always good to get their perspective, a different view point. They're the one's we're competing against. |
It's going to be a blessing for me. What I'm finding, because I threw across my body, I never could free up my arm. My pitches have more life to them now than they ever had. And if I do get out of alignment a little bit, I can feel it. It's the best thing that ever happened to me. That's the way I'm looking at it. |
Knowing what they can do, I was just trying to stay focused and make good pitches. |
Last year I was scared. I was very scared because I didn't know what it was. This is best for the team. |
Last year was a struggle, as far as the first half and the second half. There's some areas I just wasn't too happy with it. I wouldn't call it, necessarily, a good year all around. |
My goal and their goal is on April 3 I'll be ready to go. I'm just taking a different route. |
My goal is we break camp April 3. I may not take the same route as everybody else but I'll be ready for it. |
Now we just need to carry it back to the road starting tonight in Boston and do what we can to spoil people's October plans. |
Probably the hardest five innings I've ever pitched. That was probably more the team that I'm used to facing. |
Someone who could buy a house four years ago without any government assistance all of a sudden needed $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 of help from somewhere to buy a house. |
That was a fastball that was all over the place. But it worked. |