He's the greatest player in the world right now. Both sides of the ball -- offensively, defensively -- he's playing great.

He's real approachable. With him, no question is a dumb question.

I felt real good out there. I threw a lot of fastballs and the fastball was down. That's going to be a big pitch for me. I had to get the feel for it. Today was a good start.

If you can own the down and away strike, it's a huge advantage for you. But if you have trouble owning that, it can almost work against you. Roger is, I think, a little more, uh, what's the word I'm looking for? I guess liberal.

We wanted to win today, get the magic number down to one. I felt good, but in the sixth inning I got the ball up a little bit.

That sixth inning, I got the ball up a little bit and they were hitting it pretty hard.