Every day I try to ask him a new phrase in Japanese. Like, 'What are you doing tomorrow?' or, 'How are you?' I'm not even close to ever speaking it or reading it fluently. But I know some basic phrases.

That was a sloppy inning. Take it away, and maybe we win.

I felt physically OK, ... I fell behind some hitters, and that usually is a recipe for giving up some runs.

I always want to do well, ... I don't have any animosity toward the Diamondbacks. They were always a class organization. They let me finish school before I started pitching. They gave me every opportunity to succeed.

Early in the year we lost Ben for a while (to an inner-ear ailment) and as a pitching staff we picked up the slack pretty well, ... So this time we just got together and said, 'Hey, we've got to do the same thing here.'

There is no substitute for facing live pitching. When you go against the machine or the coaches, it's just not the same.