MIAMI -- Technically, Shane Greene began this spring pitching out of the bullpen. He was a starting pitching candidate, but he followed fellow fifth-starter contestant Daniel Norris in the pitching order. And as Greene warmed up that day a month ago, he felt an antsiness -- not nervousness, he said, because he never gets nervous.
As the right-hander warmed up in the visitors' bullpen at Marlins Park on Tuesday night in the 11th inning, preparing to protect a one-run lead after closer Francisco Rodriguez struggled to hold down a three-run lead in the ninth, it wasn't nervousness Greene was feeling.