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I am currently relaxing in my hotel room at the Executive inn at Evansville, Indiana. We concluded the first 3 games of our 6 game road trip in St. Louis and arrived here in Evansville yesterday.

Fun fact: the Evansville stadium is where they filmed A League of Their Own. The movie with Tom Hanks about women baseball players.

Evansville is better than I expected, at least where we are staying. There is a casino and some pretty good food spots within walking distance if I decide to brave the heat.

Yesterday in St. Louis we played a day game, I was in the stands charting, man it was warm...warm and sticky 98 deg, 85% humidity 108 heat index or something. That formula equates to instant profuse sweating. This reminds me of Tony Muser who managed me in Rookie ball with the Padres. It was usaully 115 degrees there and he would always say "boys just remember, its not hot, its just a little warm."

I am a starting pitcher now. I made my first start on Sunday and went 3 innings. I did pretty good, I just need to get used to it and build up the stamina to go deeper into the game. I had a 50 pitch pitch count, I expect Ill be around 60-70 tomarrow.

After being in the bullpen since just after the beginning of my senior season at UC Irvine, it takes a little time to build up the endurance to throw 100+ pitches in a game. You cant physically go right to it.

Starting is a lot different, especially the time in between starts. I can now develop a throwing/lifting/stretching/running routine which I think will help my velocity out. I was happy with my velocity my last start, I hit 93 once. I hope to build on that and that hopefully gets me some more scouts to notice.

Okay over and out