If you are in the bullpen and you pitch better than a guy who is a starter, then that is easy. That guy is going to be starting.

He showed a lot of presence and showed he is going to be OK. He matched their guy pitch by pitch.

We need a starter to go deep. It's been a rough series for the bullpen, but so far they've been up to the task.

I'm obviously lobbying for him to be a starter because I believe someone who can pitch 200 innings is going to help us more than pitching 60. I talked to Theo about it and he rolled his eyes like he usually does.

We know what we have in Dale. He's a guy that could step in and be a starter and you would feel good about it … I have a lot of confidence in him, and the players have a lot of confidence in him. He'll step in, and we'll keep rolling.

We don't have a two-back rotation or anything like that. There's a starter and there's a guy who's backing him up who we would like to get plays. It will continue like this. We're going to go with our starter and we're going to try to get our backups in place.