Zack Greinke

at Kansas City 6, Detroit 1: Zack Greinke struck out 10 in his second straight complete game, shrugging off the end of his scoreless streak at 38 innings. Greinke, who gave up an unearned run in the fifth inning, ended last season with 14 consecutive scoreless innings and opened this year with 24. Texas 5, at Baltimore 4: Michael Young hit a two-out, two-run homer off George Sherrill in the ninth inning.

Reporting from St. Louis — Not only has the momentum swung St. Louis' way in the National League Championship Series, but so have the mind games. The Cardinals go into Game 3 on Wednesday night at Busch Stadium tied with Milwaukee at one game apiece, and ace Chris Carpenter will be on the mound with some revenge possibly on his mind. Carpenter gets his chance to reply to Brewers ace Zack Greinke, who said before the series that the Cardinals right-hander has a "phony attitude.

Minnesota 8, at Chicago 6: Michael Cuddyer went three for four, finishing a triple short of the cycle, and the Twins won for the eighth time in nine games to stay 2 1/2 games behind the Tigers. Seattle 4, at Tampa Bay 3: Jose Lopez hit a tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning and the Mariners eliminated the defending AL champions. Ichiro Suzuki had a two-run homer for the Mariners, who ended Tampa Bay's four-game winning streak. at Toronto 6, Baltimore 5 (11)

Don't adjust anything, this is a recording. The Dodgers again got a respectable outing from their starting pitcher Wednesday, and again barely gave him any run support. So the Dodgers lost. Again. This time the pitcher was Nathan Eovaldi, the 21-year-old making his third big league start, and except for a couple of jams he pitched well in holding the first-place Milwaukee Brewers to two runs in six innings. But Brewers ace and former Cy Young Award winner Zack Greinke (12-4)

He could be the face of the franchise, if he wanted to be. He does not, but his talent is so extraordinary he might have to be. "I just don't like attention," Zack Greinke said. This is not about modesty. This is about coping with a social disorder, about walking away from a dream, about emerging as the best pitcher in baseball and the player to whom fans can most easily relate. You probably can't hit a 95-mph fastball, or throw one.

Zack Greinke struck out 10 batters in a six-hitter to remain undefeated and become the first six-game winner in the major leagues with his second shutout in four starts, leading the Kansas City Royals to a 3-0 win over the Chicago White Sox on Monday night. The right-hander baffled the White Sox, working inside and out, up and down, slow and fast. Greinke didn't walk a batter, dropped his earned-run average to 0.

Kansas City 9, at Detroit 2 : Zack Greinke lowered his major-league-leading earned-run average to 2.14 with five scoreless innings for the Royals. Greinke has given up only one earned run in his last four starts, lowering his ERA from 2.43. Tampa Bay 3, at Baltimore 0 : Wade Davis threw a four-hit shutout to earn his first major league win and the Rays earned a split of the four-game series. at Oakland 5, Cleveland 2 : Kurt Suzuki hit a three-run homer for the A's, who have won four straight.

* at Kansas City 3, Chicago 0: Zack Greinke struck out a career-high 10 and gave up two hits in eight innings, leading the Royals over the White Sox. Greinke (7-6), making his sixth start since rejoining the rotation on Aug. 24, allowed only one runner past first base and became the first Kansas City pitcher to reach double digits in strikeouts since Odalis Perez fanned 10 against Boston on Sept. 8 last year.

Zack Greinke struck out eight while pitching his fifth complete game and Mitch Maier drove in three runs after coming off the bench, leading the Kansas City Royals past the Detroit Tigers 6-1 Tuesday night. Greinke (8-1), who leads the majors in earned-run average, complete games and shutouts (two), gave up six hits and one first-inning run. For the rest of the night, he shut down a Detroit lineup that scored 13 runs the day before.

Ron Roenicke spent the past 11 seasons as a trusted advisor to Angels Manager Mike Scioscia . So he couldn't help but wonder how his boss would take it when Roenicke found himself sitting by the phone waiting for the Milwaukee Brewers to call and offer him their managerial job. When the first congratulatory call came, however, it wasn't from Milwaukee. It was from Scioscia. "I think Scioscia knew I had the job before I did," Roenicke said Saturday. It was, after all, a move both men had been expecting.

The much-anticipated blockbuster trade involving 2009 Cy Young Award winner Zack Greinke became official Sunday when the Kansas City Royals worked out a six-player swap with the Milwaukee Brewers. The Royals packaged Greinke with shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt and $2 million in a build-for-the-future return that netted shortstop Alcides Escobar and three prospects: outfielder Lorenzo Cain and right-handed pitchers Jake Odorizzi and Jeremy Jeffress . Odorizzi and Jeffress were tentatively ranked by Baseball America as the No. 1 and No. 3 prospects in the Brewers' system before the trade.

The Angels' clubhouse got a little raucous Wednesday, and it had nothing to do with a 2-1 win over Kansas City, a victory forged primarily on the arm of Jered Weaver and the bat of Bobby Abreu, whose 10th-inning home run gave the Angels their seventh walk-off win of the season and a three-game sweep of the Royals. Players gathered around the television to watch ESPN's video montage of baseball's top-10 bench-clearing brawls, cheering wildly as Nolan Ryan gripped a young Robin Ventura in a headlock and screaming in delight as Lou Piniella and Carlton Fisk exchanged blows after a play at the plate.

Monday through Thursday: at Kansas City Royals Friday through Sunday: at Seattle Mariners The Angels cleared out of their stadium for two weeks to accommodate two U2 concerts, since postponed because of Bono's emergency back surgery. It's too late to change the schedule, so the Angels start their long march — 14 games in 14 days — in Kansas City, where defending Cy Young winner Zack Greinke is 1-5 with a 3.57 ERA. The run support in Kansas City goes to Luke Hochevar , who is 5-2 with a 4.95 ERA. The Royals have scored more than four runs in six of Hochevar's starts and two of Greinke's.

Kansas City 8, Dodgers 4 AT THE PLATE: Manny Ramirez hit his second homer of the spring, sending a fourth-inning pitch by Zack Greinke over the left-field wall. Blake DeWitt was two for three with a double, a run and a run batted in to raise his spring average to .372. ON THE MOUND: Jonathan Broxton and George Sherrill pitched on consecutive days for the first time this spring. Broxton tossed a scoreless inning, but Sherrill lasted only two-thirds of an inning, as he gave up a hit and walked two. EXTRA BASES: Rafael Furcal was charged with his fourth error of the spring in the fourth inning.

Zack Greinke won the American League Cy Young Award on Tuesday, easily beating out Felix Hernandez after a spectacular season short on wins but long on domination. Greinke was 16-8 with a major league-best 2.16 earned-run average for Kansas City. Hernandez was 19-5 with a 2.49 ERA for Seattle. Greinke received 25 of 28 first-place votes and three seconds for 134 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Assn. of America. Hernandez had two firsts, 23 seconds and one third for 80 points.

Minnesota 8, at Chicago 6: Michael Cuddyer went three for four, finishing a triple short of the cycle, and the Twins won for the eighth time in nine games to stay 2 1/2 games behind the Tigers. Seattle 4, at Tampa Bay 3: Jose Lopez hit a tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning and the Mariners eliminated the defending AL champions. Ichiro Suzuki had a two-run homer for the Mariners, who ended Tampa Bay's four-game winning streak. at Toronto 6, Baltimore 5 (11)

Kansas City 9, at Detroit 2 : Zack Greinke lowered his major-league-leading earned-run average to 2.14 with five scoreless innings for the Royals. Greinke has given up only one earned run in his last four starts, lowering his ERA from 2.43. Tampa Bay 3, at Baltimore 0 : Wade Davis threw a four-hit shutout to earn his first major league win and the Rays earned a split of the four-game series. at Oakland 5, Cleveland 2 : Kurt Suzuki hit a three-run homer for the A's, who have won four straight.