When your team's doing that stuff, it makes it easy to throw strikes.

I couldn't throw strikes early and when I did they were sitting on it,

He's tough. He's the real deal there. When you have three pitches you can throw for strikes, it's tough to hit.

I would have liked to have somebody stand behind me and say: 'We've got your back. Go out there and shut them down from here on. But that didn't happen today, so whatever.

I wanted to go out and get off to a good start, so I could forget about what happened last week,

I can't complain about being here, ... We have been in the playoff hunt the last four years. I like playing here, and I think this other stuff can be resolved. I know little things have come up, but they have been resolved.