I waited for a while to get back in the flow of things, ... I had a lot of balls thrown my way in college, so to get back to that, I'm pretty excited about it.

I could only hit balls thrown down at my feet.

That's why I was getting all those ground balls. It's tough to elevate.

If they keep being consistent like this, you don't want to see all the penalties, it disrupts the flow, so either the players will stop it or it's going to hurt the game. Only time will tell. Yesterday (Wednesday's game against Colorado) was a great game, not too many penalties, tonight there were a lot of penalties that probably should have been that weren't called, but there was some flow.

A couple balls caught too much of the plate early, ... We were still in the ballgame, and we ended up giving away like four runs on defense. You can't give away runs in the big leagues. We didn't play very good defense today.

I know I got a little careless. I threw him a lot of breaking balls in a row.