Zack Greinke wins career-best seventh consecutive start against Phillies
Jun 18, 2016, 3:31 PM | Updated: 6:30 pm
Arizona Diamondbacks' Zack Greinke pitches during the first inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Saturday, June 18, 2016, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
(AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
The $206.5 million dollar man has arrived.
Zack Greinke (10-3) pitched eight innings Saturday and gave up only one earned run in a 4-1 win against the Philadelphia Phillies, winning his seventh straight start. Greinke is just the fifth Diamondback pitcher to win seven-straight starts.
This is the first time in Greinke’s career that he has won seven-straight decisions without a no-decision in-between any of the starts.
The Arizona Diamondbacks must be relieved they are starting to see the pitcher they signed to the lucrative six-year deal.
It’s one of the 32-year-old’s best stretches of his career.
The last time Greinke experienced a win-streak like this was back in 2009 when the right-hander won six consecutive starts to start the season with the Kansas City Royals. Greinke gave up only two earned runs in that stretch, allowing zero runs in five of the six wins and threw a complete game in an astonishing three of four starts at the tail end of the streak.
The win streak came to an end against the Los Angeles Angels, a start in which Greinke allowed only four hits and one earned in eight innings. He would start that season with a 0.84 ERA in his first 10 starts.
That sort of stretch run is what the D-backs have been seeing from their ace since mid-May.
Greinke has allowed two earned runs or less in his last four starts, and only three earned total during that stretch.
Arizona is now 11-4 in games started by Greinke.
He will look to make it eight-straight in his next scheduled start in Colorado against the Rockies on June 23. Tyler Chatwood is penciled in for the Rockies. He has an 8-4 record on the season with a 3.15 ERA.
