Usually during the regular season, if you're starting pitcher, you're kind of walking back and forth from the clubhouse to the dugout and not really paying attention to what's going on.

No matter what you do in the offseason, you can't simulate putting spikes on and standing in the grass and being around your teammates. When you're around your teammates, you step it up a notch. It's just kind of instinctive you do that.

Everyone is paying attention to Duke. So any little flare-up, and that's the kind of the backlash they get.

I consider those kind of like misses. I wasn't really paying attention.

It's a big game. It's the last regular-season game and I think everybody realizes what happens if you win and what happens if you lose.

You never know when you're going to throw a no-hitter or if you're ever going to get the chance to do it. It's one of those deals where the ninth inning comes around; it's either going to be your night or just a complete game.