"I thought he had as good a fastball command as we've seen in a while," Rays manager Kevin Cash said. "I thought his changeup was a really big pitch for him. Maybe not so much to put guys away with it, but it was another weapon he was able to show and he threw some really, really good changeups. ... When you introduce that third pitch with the two pitches he's already featuring, he becomes that much more dynamic."
Most -- save for Archer himself -- would have said the righty seemed to have the game under control.