I guess it's good. An outing like today makes me more comfortable on the mound.

A couple of hits cost three or four runs and that hurts. It was my first outing in 10 days facing hitters and maybe that cost a little bit. It's not going to be normal after not pitching in 10 days and there were a lot of things going in on my head.

I was trying to refresh myself. Today against Kansas City I was concentrating on my pace, not to get the win. I want to make my body ready for the next [World Baseball Classic] game.

Mechanically, he looked OK out there on the mound. All in all it was a good outing.

It was too bad he couldn't go longer than five innings. But he did a good job, but the manager wanted to use more pitchers.

I was kind of surprised, even over 70-80 pitches, still I felt good. I gave up hits on the off speed stuff today. That's kind of a shame. I tried to be more aggressive.