As far as the wild pitches are concerned, Hale said he's still working out the kinks with some mechanical adjustments he made in between starts.
"It's been about three days now," Hale said. "I really like them, and I've just got to groove them now. [The adjustments are] keeping myself more in line and being less rotational. I've always worked on that in the past, but this thing is the most immediate change that I've seen. I'm really happy with that, and I'm going to stick with it."
Of Hale's four wild pitches, three of them came in the second -- and two were rather costly.