Teammates are everything is this sport. They do everything for you. Without them, I would have thrown in the towel.

Hopefully, I had enough legs to take it all the way. J.J. was inching up and inching up, and it was just a matter of whether he would run out of real estate, and he didn't.

With two miles to go we all got together, and they got me to the front for that last moment. I was suffering -- my arms, stomach, my legs. It gets in your head. I figured they got me this far that I had to go for it.

He's scheduled to have a quick doctor visit to get up-to-date with his inner ear issue. He's been doing his long toss, probably will start to graduate onto the mound and just go day-by-day on the basis of how he feels.

He had it when he got here.

He went through some treatment today and the doctors are continuing to be encouraged, but he's really still in that active rest period. We don't think this is going to be a quick fix.