The biggest thing, ... is Kevin always knows what he wants to do. Sometimes pitchers will get in those situations and feel that they got into trouble because what they were doing wasn't working, so they try something else. Kevin is really good at staying with his plan and just turning it up a notch.

We serve children, who have been known to break into employee and agency vehicles. A gun would present a danger to the children and the staff.

We had to get him focusing on the delivery and delivering the ball to the plate and not thinking about what you want the ball to do. I think it was key for him, because hitters didn't know what was coming.

Tell me the youngest person you have ever seen play this game.

He throws in the mid-90s. But we haven't seen him put up the numbers he did last night.

In 2001, I was the pitching coach at Buffalo, and had to miss a game to come back to Minnesota for the 10-year reunion of that 1991 Twins team. I felt guilty being away from Buffalo, but Kirby was nice enough to sign 28 baseballs for me, to take back to all the players at Buffalo. Kirby was always a guy who was willing to give. He made people happy, and he's definitely going to be missed.