I keep telling Adam he's not our No. 9 guy, he's our second lead-off man. I'm trying to give him confidence.

Never did I think we'd score 15 runs on this bunch. Never in my wildest dreams.

We beat a rival in what I thought was a classic game. But we can't settle. The season's only half over, and there's a long road ahead.

We wanted to get him some mound work tonight, but we didn't want to pitch him to death. It worked out ideally.

He was nervous, nervous all week long. And this was a good-hitting team. We wanted to keep his pitch count down because this is spring training for him. But he did exactly what we needed him to do.

It's pretty well-documented, the impact of big box retail on the local business community.