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Given all that history, Greinke was asked what the homers meant.\n\n“Not much now,” Greinke deadpanned. “It feels like everyone is hitting homers. We’ll see how long that keeps up for.”\n\nGreinke’s first homer was a three-run shot in the fourth inning off Padres starter Eric Lauer. He smacked an 0-1 pitch to dead-center and sent it 413 feet, according to Statcast. The ball left Greinke’s bat at 102.8 mph.\n\nThat Greinke was even swinging the bat in that situation showed the confidence Lovullo has in him. With runners on first and second and one out, Lovullo said he would have bunted had any other pitcher been at the plate. Greinke, though, got the green light to swing.\n\n“Nothing he does surprises me,” Lovullo said. “He works extremely hard on all parts of his game. He’s a good hitter; he’s a good athlete. So, we ask a lot of him when steps on the mound, but we know he’s very capable. And that actually doesn’t surprise us because he’s talked about being a good hitter, and he didn’t let us down today.”\n\nGreinke’s teammates jokingly gave him the silent treatment after the first homer, initially ignoring him when he came back to the dugout after the homer before then celebrating with him.\n\n“I told them it was the first time I wanted anyone to talk to me all year,” he said. “And they didn’t want to talk to me then.”
Not done yet, Greinke followed