"He came to pitch today," said Montero, who had a little chat with the right-hander before the game. "Sometimes I ask him to trust me. I know he has a pretty good idea and he's prepared, but at the same time, [I told him], 'Let me help you out.'
"The last thing I want him to do is be thinking and thinking and then you have to make the pitch. I told him, 'Let me do the thinking, and you just worry about making the pitches.'"
It worked. Arrieta faced the minimum over the first seven innings.