You can see the difference of when he's feeling good and when he isn't. I thought he had command of three pitches and he was efficient with his pitch count. He settled in right away in the first inning.

I'm sure every team has about three or four pages of at-bats on him. His last two at-bats were very mature at-bats.

Anytime you can get the first run against a quality pitcher it's a big run.

We had a lot more energy. We had a good team meeting (Tuesday) and a good practice. It showed up in the first inning.

That was our dilemma last year. We have a No. 2 by committee and that may be the same this year. We're looking for someone to step up and fill that roll. I think we enough guys to fill that spot.

I think it's wide open, but you have to look at Pitman as the favorite. You look at their pitching for one and they lost like only one starter. Toward the end of the year they were playing as well as anyone in the Valley.