It was real important to get a quick lead like that. When you get up by a bit, it makes the game come to you a little bit easier.

Their guys were swinging the bat, but the umpire had a strike zone I liked and things were working for me out there.

The biggest thing I hear about is speeding around with your friends. I tell them war stories about people who are in wheelchairs, who will never walk again. But you get kids in a car and they?re trying to impress a friend, and the next thing you know ...

The first inning, I tried to figure out where the strike zone was, where he was calling balls and where he wasn't, where I could work around. The first and second inning, really, was to figure out where the hitters were standing and where to throw them out.

Those two wins against (UQTR) were big for us, kind of a confidence booster that we needed.

We've obviously played a hundred times better than we did in the first half.