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For six special innings Wednesday night, a former KC Royals star battled a future one at Kauffman Stadium. Houston’s Zack Greinke, winner of the Cy Young award in 2009 as a Royal and a decent bet for Cooperstown, and Kansas City’s uber-talented but struggling Brady Singer, all but silenced each other’s club through the first two-thirds of the game.
At 37 and pitching in his 18th big league season, Greinke doesn’t dominate hitters like he once did, but he knows how to pitch (he came into the game 11-3) and proved it.