I don't like it. But what can I do? I want to pitch every fifth day and they know that, but it's not my call. I'm not the manager.

I don't think that right now you can say this team is going to be the favorite or this other team is going to be a favorite. A bunch of teams have great national teams. Obviously, the United States has a great team, and that's not secret, but I think we have a great team also.

I just felt better overall, my body and my arm felt better. My fastball was pretty good today. I was locating both sides of the plate with all my pitches.

I just felt better overall. My body, my arm felt better. It was special hearing the home crowd and throwing my first good game here. The last time, I stunk a little bit.

In Puerto Rico everybody is so excited because they have not seen so many big-league players before. The Latin American countries take a lot of pride in baseball being the national sport. They want to see this because this is so unique. In the United States there are so many games and there is a team in every city.

I had an up and down year with Arizona, but the most important thing is I got my confidence back. I think I have improved from where I was. My numbers were not great, but I think I improved. Hopefully, this year I have a better year.

I mean, what can you do? It kind of stinks that was the first hit. ... That's part of the game.

I just battled out there. The balls just found the holes. I just felt like I was in trouble all night.

I'm glad I could get out of trouble when I was in it,

They've never seen so many big league players be in a tournament like this. And in a lot of Latin American countries, I think there's a lot of pride in baseball as a national sport. They want to see us representing Puerto Rico to the best of our abilities.