Zack Greinke throws two scoreless innings in Diamondbacks’ spring debut

The Arizona Diamondbacks’ $206.5-million man pronounced his spring training debut for the team as pretty good.

Zack Greinke pitched two scoreless innings in the Diamondbacks’ 6-3 victory over an Oakland Athletics’ split squad on Friday.

The Diamondbacks’ new ace, whose signing to the big six-year deal with Arizona was a big offseason surprise, gave up one hit and struck out two. He threw 16 of 25 pitches for strikes.

“It was all right, decent location, some OK offspeed,” Greinke said. “Not all of them perfect, but they were OK, some good pitches, some not-quite as good, but overall pretty good.”

Greinke has had injury problems the past three springs but they obviously didn’t affect him once the season began. He said his main goal this spring is to “stay healthy for the most part. Ideally, I’d like to have pitches sort of do what I want them to and that’s kind of what I did.”

Greinke, 19-3 with a major league-best 1.66 ERA for the Los Angeles Dodgers last season, was asked if he felt anything special in a new uniform.

“No, not really,” he said. “Probably because it’s spring training. The first game of the regular season will probably be a lot more feeling like that, pitching in a new park with different fans and all that, getting used to a new home and stadium.”

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