This Sunday, Zack Greinke will pitch the last game of the season. It’s a home game against the New York Yankees, and it might just be the last game of Greinke’s entire career.
Unfortunately, the game doesn’t have much stakes. The Kansas City Royals’ draft odds are locked in: even if they somehow fall to third place, they’ll have the same shot at the number one pick. And the Yankees, for the first time since 2016 and only the fifth time since 1995, have been eliminated from the playoffs.
But that does open a door for something magical to happen: letting Zack Greinke hit.