 The fastball had zip, too, but if you're, as a hitter, worried about that curveball, and that little bit of the slow stuff is in your mind, that's when he gets the swings and misses on the elevated fastball with a little zip off. It's almost like he was getting ahead with the curveball, and then here comes the heater. Yeah. The big thing for him, though, early in the season, he had a couple of really good starts where they cut him short. You know, six innings, 70 pitches. That was like back-to-back games in April, and you're like, when is he going to get a chance to,