SAN DIEGO – Houston Astros pitcher Zack Greinke said he’s enjoyed playing games without fans during the pandemic-shortened season and in the playoffs. “I don’t really notice fans when the game’s going on, but warming up and practice before games, I mean for me it’s nice not having fans in the stands,” Greinke said Tuesday before Game 3 of the AL Championship Series against the Tampa Bay Rays. “Most people like it.
When the game comes on it’s the same for me.”Asked to explain, he said: “Because then there’s no one there to talk to you and ask for autographs and want pictures and all that stuff.
I don’t like to do that stuff. It’s nice not having them, for me. Most people like it. I don’t like it.”Greinke, the 2009 AL Cy Young Award winner.