He's tough. He's the real deal there. When you have three pitches you can throw for strikes, it's tough to hit.

When I have two strikes, I feel free, ... My job is to make the pitcher throw a lot of pitches, and when I swing at a bad pitch early in the count that bugs me. Once I get to two strikes and I swing at a bad pitch, I don't mind it at all.

He's got good off-speed pitches. When he throws them for strikes, which he was doing, he's tough to hit.

I couldn't throw strikes early and when I did they were sitting on it,

When your team's doing that stuff, it makes it easy to throw strikes.

He's really confident when he pitches against them. When he's on, he's awful tough.