He gave no real reason for that -- "I just wasn't into it," he said -- but the result was a solid six-inning, two-run performance in which he issued no walks.
Bernstein received criticism at the time for preperformance remarks to the audience in which he issued a disclaimer.
He has had a weird season, making the All-Star team by vote of the players, who ignored a four-start slump in which he issued 20 walks.
In his seventh start last season, he threw a shutout in which he issued no walks, and his record was 4-1, with a 2.83 earned-run average.
Justice Engoron echoed some of his decision in June, in which he issued a temporary restraining order for the plan and questioned the city's decision to circumvent the Council.
After Benitez blew a save against the Yankees on June 22 in which he issued four walks in the ninth inning at Shea Stadium, some Yankee officials soured on the idea of trading for him.
A couple of hours earlier, at a hotel in Birmingham, he had delivered one of the most controversial speeches in British history, in which he issued an apocalyptic warning about what he saw as the dangers of mass immigration.
His initial relief appearances show that his control has not improved; last night, he allowed five runs to the Cubs in a 20-ball, 10-strike outing in which he issued four walks and hit a batter.
Abe's departure from the landmark 1995 statement by the then prime minister, Tomiichi Murayama, in which he issued a "heartfelt apology" for Japan's "aggression" and "colonial rule" on the Asian mainland, quickly drew criticism from China.
Zidane, who has topped Paris newspaper polls to find the greatest living Frenchman and who was hailed by President Jacques Chirac on the team's return home as "a virtuoso, a genius," held a high-profile TV interview in which he issued an apology to any children who might have been watching, but did not express regret.
