Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.

Their pitchers made an adjustment and our hitters didn't. The name of this game is to adjust when the opposition adjusts. We just didn't get it done.

He was terrific. He throws a lot of strikes and for the most part he stayed ahead of the hitters. He doesn't beat himself; that doesn't happen very often. We were able to give him some runs to work with. When you give him some runs he knows what to do with it.

He does things that drive hitters nuts. I've never seen a pitcher get so many ground balls back to the mound. That's all about movement.

That sort of broke the ice,

Now, we don't have to cram it for a week or 10 days. We can sort of get into the spring training routine.