"I fought through it," Niese said. "Right now, I'm not really worried about the results. I'm just worried about the process, getting the volume. It'll come. The results will be there."
Niese said he was throwing each pitch in his repertoire, but that he didn't have his best stuff, particularly in his two-seam fastball. Additionally, he had trouble locating his cutter, but he did feel his offspeed pitches were coming along.
"I felt pretty good with my changeup at the end and felt like I used that pretty well," Niese said. "My curveball is getting a lot better.