Say what you will about the New York Yankees, they’re a classy organization. Perhaps no other in sports mythologizes its own history nor honors its greats in the same way. In that vein, the Yankees did a tremendous job of honoring Royals righty Zack Greinke in what may be his final start — going down without much of a fight in Sunday’s 5-2 season finale.
For 90 minutes, it was Classic Zack Greinke. He filled the strike zone — 62 percent of his tosses in the zone today — with six different types of pitches. In that wily veteran way, the only time he really got into trouble was loading the bases on three straight singles to open the game, and then immediately engineered a home-to-first double play to avoid damage.