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

He was always behind Anthony, he fell into that trap where I can do just enough to be OK, ... Now that you're a starter, you can't just be OK. You have to play at a level for us to win. That's good for us.

Especially with the guys behind him, he'll score runs. If he has a .400 on-base percentage, he could score 200 runs.

He (Dirks) made some bad pitches to the good hitters and usually he does the opposite. He makes a mistake and it is usually a guy that is not a tremendous hitter. Kingsbury, who you know can hit, had a couple.

It's more complicated with hitters, but I felt fine.

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.