Toronto's Opening Day starter did allow one run in the fifth, but he also got out of a bases-loaded situation to protect a 5-1 lead. It easily could have gone the other way, and in a lot of his previous starts it has.
"For his year, where he's at, I thought it was huge that he gets over that hump," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "There's absolutely nothing physical. I thought it might have been a mental thing, which is natural for a young guy like that. I thought it was very important and hopefully that can carry him on.