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Oh yes, and one fastball clocked by the stadium radar gun at 100 miles an hour.

“I don’t think that was right,” Norris said with a sheepish smile. “I never had one of those before.”

OK, so we won’t count that one. He didn’t even get a swing-and-miss on it. Steve Pearce hit it into a fly-ball out.

But otherwise, that same radar gun posted numbers ranging from 74 to 97 on the Norris repertoire. He got in a few little jams and pitched out of them. Bowed his neck, as he said afterward. And generally dominated the Orioles’ A-team.

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He was happy about all of that, but mostly about that new changeup, the one with the “looser” grip, which pitching coach Pete Walker suggested after his previous start.

“My whole career I’ve thrown a cut change and it’s played really well,” Norris said. “But we sat down and talked this week and [the coaches] were like, ‘There’s nothing wrong with it. It’s just that you’ve got to have something that kind of goes the other way.’ So we kind of messed around with something. They said, ‘It’s up to you if you want to try it.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, if it’s going to make me better, I’ll do it, sure. And it worked today.”

No, he has no plans to add another pitch, even though he made the process look quick and easy.