 Garrett Aaron mentioned the fact that he liked the way that you finished strong there in that seventh inning just How much did you feel like you emptied the tank there? Um, I mean pretty good. I thought we were making good pitches all inning few deep counts and You know some some quality pitches there 3-2 But it ran to pitch count up a little bit and You know we were able to fortunately get out of there. I thought we did a nice job holding Dyson. Obviously that's that's kind of tough so And yeah, I mean felt strong at the end of the game So it was nice to nice to get out of that unscathed It seemed like you leaned on your slider a little bit more tonight what went into that decision-making process I thought just the location and the team Both kind of matched up well And was it at all awkward? It seemed like in that inning you were looking for the umpire to come over To you and kind of check for substances. Is that just getting used to the new rules there? Yeah Yeah, it's it's a bit awkward Andy Martino you have the next question Garrett now that you've experienced that Does it seem fair to you for pitchers who haven't been accused of anything yet individually to be stopped in the middle of 30,000 people and have to in some cases remove a belt or be checked and go through that in front of everyone Routinely like that. Is that are you okay with the way it's being done? I Don't know. I just I don't really know. I mean I'm I don't think really It's a super comfortable situation for anybody But you know it is what it is and maybe it'll we'll get more comfortable with it going forward Tom Mariam you're the next question Third is it on your mind when you're on the man that they're going to check you eventually there? Or can you put it out of your mind? Mmm Yeah, I think that Well, it certainly it was certainly I didn't want to walk past like, you know like walk past them or or Be oblivious to the check the first, you know the first couple times when there was inevitably no check So Yeah, I thought about it a few times Gary you've mentioned all through this process that it's been a little bit adjustment for you just getting a grip on The baseballs and stuff have you have you changed much in in what you've done over say the past month as far as the way You've pitched or or how you've approached things or just because it has been a Kind of a big switch for a number of guys around the league and I was wondering for you if it's been that way as well yeah, I'm just you know trying to adapt and adjust and You know, obviously with a with a lot on the line, you know Try to put Location first sequencing first I mean When it's all said and done, we're just looking to collect out So if I can get out on the pitches that I anticipate getting an out on whether it's via the swing and miss or Or a ground ball or fly ball or you know, maybe a great defensive play You know Not gonna be not gonna be picky in that regard but still in Still still definitely adjusting So Yeah, hopefully we just keep you know, I mean pitching well, so I mean Don't up throwing up innings throwing up throwing up throw up a lot of zeros. So Just keep keep doing what we're doing and and push on I mean just like along those lines when you are getting the results I just wanted to like early on there was a lot a lot of contact more That you're getting contact out of people to get the outs that way I'm wondering for that's gonna be kind of more of what you're trying to do with the location and stuff like that I mean to be honest, that's always been you know a part of I mean Gosh if I had a dollar for how many times the pirates told me to pitch the contact, you know, I mean I may not have as much money now, but I'd still have a quite a bit of money I mean like that was what was hammered into us, you know growing up And there's a lot of those fundamentals have never left my game. So You know right now if You're not quite so comfortable locating a pitch at the top of the zone or really getting aggressive spinning it Spinning a pitch to the bottom, you know portion of the zone or or taking a chance, you know, kind of over the plate If there's maybe a more logical choice or or something that can you know You can use to your advantage in terms of the defense or in terms of hitter weakness Relative to self-contact or ground balls like that, you know, maybe those are those are things I think sometimes we're targeting you know targeting because Because you know we got to get outs and and and you know the adjustment, you know may take a little time Thank you And even if you have the next question Hey Gary you touched on a little less in your last answer But just you know, how pleased are you with when you talk about making these adjustments with your last three starts in particular? Yeah, I mean if I'm evaluating tonight, certainly the home run Was was hard contact as a bad pitch Sally was on it on a high fastball pretty good, you know predictable You know challenge kind of moment and and a really really good fastball hitter But there was a couple reactionary barrels. I thought but we avoided hard contact for a majority of the night You know the first the first mark was a combination of you know, obviously wit doing his job Putting the ball in the ground with runners on first and third And then a couple, you know finding the holes from from from Taylor and Lopez and you know in those situations guys Putting the ball in play and and finding holes you got to you got to kind of tip your cap I mean you're not going to walk through this thing completely unscathed but you know, we're making smart pitches and and we're Locations coming around a little bit and and you know finding opportunities to to try to excel and Give our team a chance to win every single time So certainly certainly really pleased with with a lot of those aspects for sure