"I felt good today," De La Rosa said. "I was being aggressive with hitters and threw a lot of strikes. I was trying to paint the zone as much as I could."
The lone run that De La Rosa allowed came in the fifth when, with one out and the bases loaded, Michael Bourn hit a grounder to the hole at short that Nick Ahmed was unable to field cleanly.
"I don't even know if I would have had a play at home," Ahmed said. "It may have been bang-bang with a perfect throw.