Zack Greinke needed 30 pitches to get through a scoreless first inning, but he followed it up with two more economical innings as the Diamondbacks and Twins were scoreless after 3 1/2 innings on Saturday evening.
Greinke worked out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the first, getting a pair of harmless pop-ups to end the inning. He went to three-ball counts on each of the first four batters he faced.
He needed just 11 pitches in the second and 17 in the third, and his pitch count was at a more manageable 58 after three innings.