"We knew he could help us, but he hadn't been there those previous two years, and he might not have taken it as seriously as we were during those fall practices," said Wooten. "I think he thought he was going to come in and breeze right through college. It didn't work that way at the beginning. I think he got humbled pretty quick. But he put his head down and he got to work.
"I love Matt. He's an All-Star and he's going to win a Cy Young Award someday, and now he's pitching Game 1 of the World Series.