Zack Greinke is a good pitcher. Zack Greinke with the strike zone he had today? It’s a miracle the Cards scored any runs against him. I won’t say that the ump favored the Diamondbacks today, but I will say that Greinke received what my dad used to call “the Maddux strike zone.” Jack Flaherty did not receive the Maddux strike zone. Far from it in fact.
The first inning was honestly one of the most one-sided strike zones I’ve seen in recent memory. It completely changed the game. Matt Carpenter began the game with a leadoff single.