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| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| L.A. Dodgers (0-1) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| Chi. White Sox (1-0) « | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Zack Greinke felt right at home in his new uniform.
The right-hander pitched two clean innings in his Dodgers debut and Los Angeles tied the Chicago White Sox 2-2 on Sunday in a Cactus League game that was called after nine innings.
Pitching for the first time since he signed a $147 million, six-year contract to join the free-spending Dodgers in the offseason, Greinke retired six of his seven batters. He struck out leadoff man Dewayne Wise and third-place hitter Alex Rios in the first inning.
Greinke gave up one hit, a single up the middle by Jeff Keppinger.
"He knows exactly what he wants to do," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "Knowing it's his first time on the mound with the umpire and everything, obviously there were no issues."
Nothing about pitching in a game in late February made Greinke feel nervous, even if it was his first with his new team. Expectations will be high with that huge contract.
"That will mostly be when the season starts," Greinke said. "Spring training is just getting ready. I kind of feel like we just got to spring training, so I didn't expect much out of it today."
Hanley Ramirez had an RBI single and Luis Cruz homered for the Dodgers.
White Sox slugger Adam Dunn hit an opposite-field, two-run homer to left against Peter Moylan. Chicago manager Robin Ventura was happy to see Dunn get his first long ball out of the way after he hit 41 last season.
"If it lingers on too much, not having good at-bats, you are starting off battling from the negative," Ventura said. "It's nice for everybody to kind of get on the board and have a good at-bat."
For his first time out, Greinke was fairly pleased to get on board with two scoreless innings.
"Maybe 50 percent of the pitches were good. That's probably more than I expected," Greinke said. "I threw one slider (to Rios) that was good. I guess that was the best pitch. Some fastballs were good, some didn't come out right. The changeups, some were lower than I wanted. The curveball was all right. It was the first start."
Greinke has been getting a franchise history lesson while hanging around Dodgers great Sandy Koufax, who attended the game.
"I just talked to him a little about baseball," Greinke said. "He's a pretty happy guy, it seems like.
"A lot of (the conversation) was just learning about how stuff was when he played, talking about stadiums and his approach to stuff."
Told that Koufax pitched 27 complete games in each of his last two seasons, 1965 and `66, Greinke was somewhat in awe.
"I don't think you could get all those guys out nowadays," he said. "You'd get tired and guys would start crushing you. I don't know if anyone is good enough to do that."
With left-hander Clayton Kershaw and Greinke on their staff, the Dodgers have the first righty-lefty combination of Cy Young Award winners on the same team since Koufax and Don Drysdale.
"I guess that's kind of neat," said Greinke, who won the award with Kansas City in 2009. "Hopefully we do that together. Those two did it with the same team so I guess that's a little more special."
NOTES: Hyun-Jin Ryu also made his debut for the Dodgers, pitching a scoreless inning before going to the bullpen for more work. Ryu was signed to a $36 million, six-year deal after the Dodgers paid Ryu's Korean league team $25.7 million for his negotiating rights. "Ryu threw a couple really good changeups and his fastball got on some guys," Mattingly said. "He looked pretty good." ... RHP Erik Johnson, rated by Baseball America as the No. 4 prospect in the White Sox system, started and allowed one run over three innings. Unlike the Dodgers, the White Sox aren't using their projected starting pitchers in games until March 1.
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| Los Angeles Dodgers | ||||||||
| Hitters | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | LOB | AVG |
| Mark Ellis, 2B | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .250 |
| Nick Punto, 2B-SS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .000 |
| Dallas McPherson, 1B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 |
| Hanley Ramirez, SS | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .200 |
| Omar Luna, PR-2B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 |
| Adrian Gonzalez, 1B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | .000 |
| Nick Evans, 1B-LF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 |
| Andre Ethier, RF | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .500 |
| Tony Gwynn Jr., RF-CF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Luis Cruz, 3B | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .167 |
| Ozzie Martinez, 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 |
| Alex Castellanos, CF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 |
| Alfredo Amezaga, LF-RF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Tim Federowicz, C | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .500 |
| Wilkin Castillo, C | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Jeremy Moore, LF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Elian Herrera, CF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Justin Sellers, SS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Yasiel Puig, DH | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | .250 |
| a- Brian Barden, PH-DH | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 |
| Dee Gordon, PR-DH | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Totals | 31 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 4 | ||
| a-singled for Puig in the 7th | ||||||||
| Batting | ||||||||
| 2B - Tim Federowicz (1, Johnson) | ||||||||
| HR - Luis Cruz (1, Marinez) | ||||||||
| RBI - Hanley Ramirez (1), Luis Cruz (1) | ||||||||
| 2-OUT RBI - Hanley Ramirez (1) | ||||||||
| SB - Dee Gordon (1, 2nd base off Troncoso/Smith) | ||||||||
| CS - Andre Ethier (1, 2nd base by Johnson/Gimenez) | ||||||||
| Team LOB - 8 | ||||||||
| Los Angeles Dodgers | ||||||||
| Pitchers | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | ERA |
| Zack Greinke | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Hyun-Jin Ryu (H,1) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Peter Moylan | 0.2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 27.00 |
| Josh Wall | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Matt Palmer | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Steven Ames | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Juan Abreu | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 |
| HBP - Loman (by Steven Ames) | ||||||||
| Pitches-Strikes - Zack Greinke 11-11, Hyun-Jin Ryu 6-6, Peter Moylan 17-8, Josh Wall 8-8, Matt Palmer 7-7, Steven Ames 7-6, Juan Abreu 6-5 | ||||||||
| Ground Balls-Fly Balls - Zack Greinke 3-1, Hyun-Jin Ryu 1-1, Josh Wall 1-1, Matt Palmer 4-2, Steven Ames 2-0 | ||||||||
| Batters Faced - Zack Greinke 7, Hyun-Jin Ryu 4, Peter Moylan 6, Josh Wall 4, Matt Palmer 7, Steven Ames 5, Juan Abreu 3 | ||||||||
| Chicago White Sox | ||||||||
| Hitters | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | LOB | AVG |
| Dewayne Wise, LF | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .250 |
| Stefan Gartrell, LF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 |
| Jeff Keppinger, DH | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .333 |
| a- Brent Morel, PH-DH | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 |
| Alex Rios, RF | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .750 |
| Keenyn Walker, RF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .000 |
| Adam Dunn, 1B | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .250 |
| Seth Loman, 1B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 |
| Josh Bell, 1B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 |
| Hector Gimenez, C | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 |
| Bryan Anderson, C | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 |
| Kevan Smith, C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Conor Gillaspie, 3B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Tyler Saladino, 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 |
| Angel Sanchez, SS | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .200 |
| Steve Tolleson, SS | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 |
| Blake Tekotte, CF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Trayce Thompson, CF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 |
| Gordon Beckham, 2B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .250 |
| Marcus Semien, 2B | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 |
| Totals | 33 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 9 | ||
| a-grounded out for Keppinger in the 8th | ||||||||
| Batting | ||||||||
| 3B - Dewayne Wise (1, Ryu), Alex Rios (1, Moylan) | ||||||||
| HR - Adam Dunn (1, Moylan) | ||||||||
| RBI - Adam Dunn 2 (2) | ||||||||
| CS - Steve Tolleson (1, 2nd base by Abreu/Castillo) | ||||||||
| Team LOB - 7 | ||||||||
| Fielding | ||||||||
| Outfield Assists - Blake Tekotte 1 | ||||||||
| DP - Beckham-Sanchez-Dunn, Semien-Sanchez-Loman, Purcey-Tolleson-Loman | ||||||||
| E - Alex Rios (1, Dropped fly) | ||||||||
| Chicago White Sox | ||||||||
| Pitchers | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | ERA |
| Erik Johnson | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Daniel Moskos | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Scott Snodgress (H,1) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Jhan Marinez | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9.00 |
| Jacob Petricka | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| David Purcey | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Ramon Troncoso | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| HBP - Herrera (by Jacob Petricka) | ||||||||
| Pitches-Strikes - Erik Johnson 19-15, Daniel Moskos 10-6, Scott Snodgress 13-5, Jhan Marinez 6-6, Jacob Petricka 5-4, David Purcey 6-2, Ramon Troncoso 5-4 | ||||||||
| Ground Balls-Fly Balls - Erik Johnson 1-3, Daniel Moskos 1-2, Scott Snodgress 1-1, Jhan Marinez 3-0, Jacob Petricka 1-1, David Purcey 1-1, Ramon Troncoso 2-1 | ||||||||
| Batters Faced - Erik Johnson 11, Daniel Moskos 5, Scott Snodgress 5, Jhan Marinez 4, Jacob Petricka 5, David Purcey 3, Ramon Troncoso 4 | ||||||||
| Game Information |
| Attendance - 5190 |
| Game Time - 3:00 |
| Temperature - 58 |
| Umpires - Home - Seth Buckminster, First Base - Jim Wolf, Second Base - Joel Hospodka, Third Base - Quinn Wolcott |
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