But when you get into the flow of the game and get the adrenaline going, then that kind of stuff leaves. |
Hey, anything can happen, |
I don't notice it [the ankle] and that's a good sign. |
I feel very good about my delivery right now. I really haven't felt great all spring, but tonight is as good as I've felt. |
I made a bad pitch to Lee in the first inning, and then it started to become a struggle, |
I took a lot less money to play here. |
It's like, come on, he needs to go somewhere where he has a chance to win. Let everybody see how great a player this guy is. |
My curveball wasn't great tonight. I got a majority of my outs on my fastball, but I kept them off-balance with my changeup. |
Playing in this ballpark allows me to do that. If anything, it was a confidence builder. Unfortunately, I won't be able to pitch for a while, but when I do come back, I'll have this to build off of. |
Put it this way, when you play for the Rockies, you have no other choice but to go out there and compete, ... When you have a chance to pitch here three times a year, max, you don't mind missing that. You just have to concede the fact there are going to be base runners and runs scored and just make pitches when you have to. |
Sometimes you want it to rain. Today wasn't one of those. I was looking forward to getting out there. |
The third inning is when the struggle started. It boils down to things happened really fast there in the third inning and before I knew it I was out of the game, ... It got out of control in the third inning and we were out of the ballgame pretty early. |
This is not the ideal place to come back from the DL, |
We're talking major baby steps here. |
What the MRI showed was to me the best-case scenario. We're dealing with muscle, not ligament. That was very good news. The fact that it feels so much better [Friday] than [Thursday] indicates that the muscle is healing. |