Dicky Gonzalez looked like he had just run a marathon on Friday afternoon. Gonzalez was spent, and it showed. He rested his hands on his hips and breathed deeply, while beads of sweat rolled down his forehead despite the relative coolness of the air-conditioned Tokyo Dome.
"I'm tired," the Yomiuri Giants right-hander forced out between deep breaths. "They got me running."
This wasn't an isolated incident. Since being sent to the farm team earlier in the year, Gonzalez (2-3, 2.26 ERA) has been working harder than ever to forget a disastrous 2010 season and regain the form that carried him to a 15-win year in 2009.