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At 90.9 mph, Michael McGreevy’s average velocity on his four-seam fastball ranks in MLB’s bottom-five percentile.

However, that’s not as big of an issue to the Cardinals’ standout right-hander as it is to some on the outside who wonder how long he can continue to fool opposing hitters.

McGreevy greeted any concern over the speed of his fastball with a proverbial yawn.

“I’ve only got (six) other pitches to lean on, so that makes pitching a little easier,” said a somewhat sarcastic McGreevy, whose 2.18 ERA ranks sixth in the National League among starting pitchers.

McGreevy (3-2) showed how velocity can sometimes be overrated, especially when you are getting as much movement on pitches as the 25-year-old right-hander has been of late. On the heels of limiting the Dodgers to three hits over six scoreless innings last week at Busch Stadium, McGreevy pitched one of the best games of his young MLB career on Friday night in San Diego. He surrendered only one hit – a fourth-inning single by Jackson Merrill – over six more innings to extend his scoreless streak to a somewhat staggering 13 innings.

Michael McGreevy dominant in Cardinals' 6-0 win over Padres

Not only was McGreevy pitching 60 miles from where he grew up dreaming of pitching in the big leagues, he also struck out a career-best nine batters and registered a haw-dropping 17 swings and misses. Instead of blowing the Padres away with velocity, McGreevy fooled them with a changeup that got whiffs seven times on the nine that he threw.

“A lot of things were working well last night, but the changeup was definitely one of them, for sure,” McGreevy said during Saturday’s in-game interview on Fox. “We’ve seen a ton of lefties this year and the Guardians stacked nine of them against me. So, to see a bunch of (Padres’) righties, that was nice to see. I was thinking I was going to use my sweeper a lot more, but the changeup was my bread and butter.”