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Roger Mooney covers the Tampa Bay Rays for The Tampa Tribune, TBO.com and News Channel 8. He has covered the Rays since their first season in 1998, including 11 years for the Bradenton Herald. Roger has also covered Florida, South Florida and Florida State football, the Bucs and the Lightning.

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Garza satisfied with outing

Posted Mar 3, 2010 by Tribune Sports

Updated Mar 3, 2010 at 03:41 PM

SARASOTA - Matt Garza gave up a solo home run to Josh Bell during his two innings of work today, but the Rays’ No. 2 starter said he felt good about his first outing of the spring.

“I had that nervousness kick in; that’s’ when you know you’re alive,” Garza said. “It wasn’t an adrenalin rush. It was just nerves.  I even told (pitching coach Jim) Hickey, once those things are gone, you might as well just pack it up and go home. Nervous today, but felt good. We’ll go on from here.”

Garza took over for James Shields in the bottom of the second against the Orioles and gave up a walk before getting out of the inning with a double play. Bell’s home run came in the next innings.

“I just threw fastballs,” Garza said. “I threw one changeup, and that was it. It was a situation where I could have thrown a slider and put a guy away, but we face the Orioles 18 times during the year, so there was no reason to show them anything right now. These numbers don’t count as long as I get my work in.”