After my first two at bats, I had to make a little adjustment. He was throwing me nasty cutters and I just came out and laid off of it. I got to 2-0 and tried to go the other way and play my game. He made a mistake with a fastball up, but I'll take it.

Our adjustment at halftime was to pack it in and protect the inside, protect the cutters and trap the ball screens. And fortunately we had enough gas in the tank to get it done.

It was a combination of us not swinging the bats and he was throwing it well.

We were throwing a lot of curveballs and cutters. When you have a left-handed-dominated lineup and I throw backdoor cutters, that's a pitch that for the most part, if they don't hit it for a base hit, it's probably going to be a flyball out. ... I work so hard on the inside part of the plate with my cutter that when I do throw it on the backside, they have a tendency to hit that ball in the air, and not with authority.

I'm proud of the way we swung the bats. Their pitchers struggled throwing strikes tonight. … I don't think the score is indicative of the type of team they have.

This is the equivalent of handing back the box cutters to the 9/11 hijackers,