PITTSBURGH –– As Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Hunter Greene sat in the dugout during the top of the eighth inning on Sunday, Greene felt like one of the Reds’ coaches was about to come over and talk to him.
Greene had pitched seven no-hit innings, and the unwritten rule in baseball is that you don’t talk to the pitcher throwing a no-hitter. But Greene was also at 103 pitches, which was already the most he had thrown in 2022.
Greene thought that Reds manager David Bell or pitching coach Derek Johnson might have asked him how he was feeling.