LOS ANGELES — Familiarity breeds contempt.
It also makes pitching a heckuva lot harder.
Zack Greinke, in what could be his farewell to Los Angeles before free agency, faces the Mets Thursday for the second time in six days. Though the first time almost everything was on the line for the Dodgers who trailed in the series 0-1, this time everything is on the line for both the Dodgers and Mets in the deciding Game 5 of the NLDS.
“It seems like in my experience usually you have one good game and one bad game,” the Cy Young award-worthy Greinke said during a conference call Wednesday, the eve of his matchup with Jacob deGrom.