By Nick Piecoro | Arizona Republic
Zack Greinke said his start on Sunday carried no special significance. Just another game, he called it. Stepping back from the daily emotional swings a baseball season tends to evoke, his cold rationality is hard to debate, particularly with at least another 62 games still to be played. But that doesn’t mean the opposite viewpoint can’t also be true for the Diamondbacks.
Not after they suffered two brutal losses in as many days to the Colorado Rockies and fell into third place for the first time this season. Not with the Los Angeles Dodgers appearing primed to take off after their Manny Machado acquisition. And not with the Diamondbacks perhaps needing to play better to compel their front office to charge headfirst as buyers in the trade market.
However the afternoon is framed, there was no ambiguity in the performance. Greinke was dominant in a 6-1 victory over the Rockies on Sunday, a win that avoided a three-game sweep and gave the Diamondbacks at least a little positive momentum heading into a four-game series with the first-place Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field.
