Post by Fish Troll on Mar 26, 2007 16:36:27 GMT -5
Notes: Greinke named No. 3 starter
Right-hander delivers third straight great spring outing
By Alan Eskew / Special to MLB.com
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Zack Greinke will begin this season as the Royals' No. 3 starter after beginning last season on the disabled list after being diagnosed with "social anxiety."
Kansas City manager Buddy Bell said Greinke would start the third game of the season, April 5 against the Red Sox, after Greinke's third straight exceptional outing on Sunday.
Greinke struck out seven in five innings against the Brewers while allowing four hits and walking one. Greinke was charged with three runs in the Royals' 7-6 loss, but he easily could have not given up a run. Two runs scored on a Tony Pena Jr. throwing error in the fifth, while the other run that inning scored when Mark Teahen lost Damian Miller's routine fly ball in the sun and it was ruled a double.
"To leave at three runs is a definite win," Greinke said. "Three runs is a lot of runs to give up, but you want to get out of that inning and not be too crazy. And we're still in the game; that's pretty good. I don't remember a bad pitch that whole inning."
Greinke has made few bad pitches in his past three outings, allowing 10 hits in 15 innings while striking out 16 and walking two. Greinke struck out four in a row, including the side in the second inning, although he said he does not consider himself a strikeout pitcher.
"The last couple of games I was," he said. "A couple of pitches were not strikeout pitches, but they just missed them. I froze them a couple of times, and that hasn't always happened to me. I haven't always been good at freezing people for strike three."
Bell has seen enough to insert Greinke into the third slot.
"He doesn't need to do anymore than he is doing now," Bell said. "I just hope he stays this way and he's encouraged by all this. He's really had only one kind of shaky outing all during Spring Training. The main thing is he seems comfortable that he is a part of us. That is where he should be and needs to stay."
Said Greinke: "I'm pitching good right now, but the key is who is going to be the best during the season."
Bell also announced left-handed Jorge De La Rosa would start the fourth game, April 6 against the Tigers. Gil Meche and Odalis Perez are the probable starters for the first two games.
Bell also indicated Brandon Duckworth, a non-roster invitee, would be on the 12-man staff.
Right-hander delivers third straight great spring outing
By Alan Eskew / Special to MLB.com
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Zack Greinke will begin this season as the Royals' No. 3 starter after beginning last season on the disabled list after being diagnosed with "social anxiety."
Kansas City manager Buddy Bell said Greinke would start the third game of the season, April 5 against the Red Sox, after Greinke's third straight exceptional outing on Sunday.
Greinke struck out seven in five innings against the Brewers while allowing four hits and walking one. Greinke was charged with three runs in the Royals' 7-6 loss, but he easily could have not given up a run. Two runs scored on a Tony Pena Jr. throwing error in the fifth, while the other run that inning scored when Mark Teahen lost Damian Miller's routine fly ball in the sun and it was ruled a double.
"To leave at three runs is a definite win," Greinke said. "Three runs is a lot of runs to give up, but you want to get out of that inning and not be too crazy. And we're still in the game; that's pretty good. I don't remember a bad pitch that whole inning."
Greinke has made few bad pitches in his past three outings, allowing 10 hits in 15 innings while striking out 16 and walking two. Greinke struck out four in a row, including the side in the second inning, although he said he does not consider himself a strikeout pitcher.
"The last couple of games I was," he said. "A couple of pitches were not strikeout pitches, but they just missed them. I froze them a couple of times, and that hasn't always happened to me. I haven't always been good at freezing people for strike three."
Bell has seen enough to insert Greinke into the third slot.
"He doesn't need to do anymore than he is doing now," Bell said. "I just hope he stays this way and he's encouraged by all this. He's really had only one kind of shaky outing all during Spring Training. The main thing is he seems comfortable that he is a part of us. That is where he should be and needs to stay."
Said Greinke: "I'm pitching good right now, but the key is who is going to be the best during the season."
Bell also announced left-handed Jorge De La Rosa would start the fourth game, April 6 against the Tigers. Gil Meche and Odalis Perez are the probable starters for the first two games.
Bell also indicated Brandon Duckworth, a non-roster invitee, would be on the 12-man staff.
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