If it's a one-run game, you pitch totally different.

My arm feels great and I wanted to pitch. (Wednesday's) game was a bad one. This was much better. Much more like us.

In the Buffalo game, Willie had one long run,

My objective was to get out and try to run and speed the game up as fast as we could so that we could get that rust off. As much as we simulated or had great practices, it's a little bit different when you get out there in a game.

The first one, I think, was the biggest pitch of the game.

There were skeptics who wondered how strong our offense would be [in the playoffs] given all the injuries we've gone through. I think our hitters answered those questions.