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Zack Being Zack

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"Really up and down," Greinke said. "I think the main thing is – well, it’s not the main thing – but every season you have one really good stretch. Maybe at the beginning of the year I was pretty good. But you go 20 innings or so without giving up a run. I might have had one, but it’s not the same. It helps. It makes everything look better when that happens." Also of note: Toward that end, he’d adjusted before they did, hoping to stay off the bat barrels, hoping to stay ahead of the video, and hoping to save his arm. For what, he wouldn’t say. But, citing the arm-strain caused by sliders, he is throwing fewer of them, replacing them with fastballs – a four- and two-seamer – and changeups. Rather than the 20 or more he’d throw last year, many of which accounted for all those strikeouts, he said, he’ll throw 15.