He (Franklin) was throwing the ball well for four innings, then he started nibbling. When he did that he started falling behind and walking people. Then they started hitting him, plain and simple.

Our pitchers got tentative, started throwing ball one, ball two, and when you do that you're going to be in trouble.

He kept the ball down, and when he elevated his pitches, he intended to. His last four or five outings, each one has been better than the other, and this one was the best of them all. If he hadn't gotten into some trouble in the eighth, he probably would have pitched a complete game.

We pitched well for four innings. The sad thing is you have to pitch well for nine innings.

We pitched well for four innings and we didn't pitch well for five. The sad thing is you need to pitch well for nine innings.

How we're going to limit his innings remains to be seen. We can drop him down in the rotation ... when we have days off, we can skip his turn. There's a lot of things we can talk about. We haven't settled on any one strategy; it may be a combination of plans. But the one thing is that we don't want this kid going out there throwing 250 innings.