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There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard.

You're just trying to throw the best pitch you can and make sure you hit your spots. I don't have to force nobody.

If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.

When I get onto the pitch, I block out everything around it, and I really focus on the pitch.

You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.

When you don't have one that you throw for strikes - they are good hitters - they can cancel out one pitch and go to another. Now I have four pitches. If one's not working, I've got three others. It makes the game totally different.

I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

It's very important to go pitch-by-pitch and game-by-game and not getting too far ahead of myself. In the past, it was trying to make up for a bad game and thinking ahead and what do I have to do to fix this.

How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball.

I think my mindset and my approach is to hit the ball hard, whether it be first pitch or work the count.