The amazing ride continues. Tuesday night, Zack Greinke had everything working. And when Greinke has everything working, well, everyone around baseball now knows that it&#8217;s just not fair. Greinke pitched another complete game Tuesday. He kept his ERA under 1.00 for the season. He utterly controlled the game.</p><p>We&#8217;ll update you on all the amazing Greinke numbers after the Royals&#8217; 6-1 victory over Detroit. But first: Someone asked Tigers manager Jim Leyland what impressed him most about Greinke. Leyland rattled off a bunch of things: Greinke&#8217;s &#8220;put-away slider,&#8221; (as in &#8220;puts away hitters&#8221;), his curveball which he can throw for strikes anytime, his fastball which he can adjust like a digital thermometer (sometimes throwing 91 mph, sometimes throwing 97), his mesmerizing change-up, his coolness on the mound and his put-away slider (Leyland said it twice).</p><p>&#8220;Kid&#8217;s got a lot of equipment,&#8221; Leyland said, summing up.</p><p>Yes, that&#8217;s the thing that separates Greinke. Great pitchers have one or two killer pitches. Greinke has a bagful of them. Who is he pitching like? Well, a lot of people say Greg Maddux, but no, seems to me they&#8217;re actually quite different. I think a much better comparison would be someone like Satchel Paige, who threw so many different pitches he would name them (the hesitation pitch, the bat dodger, the trouble ball, the midnight creeper, etc.). He seems a lot like Juan Marichal, who would combat batters with a flurry of different motions and angles and pitches &#8212; hitting Marcihal was like trying to hit a geometry lesson.</p><p>Marichal is particularly relevant here because in 1966, he began the season 9-0 with an 0.59 ERA in his first 10 starts. And you probably have to go all the way back to that year to find a pitcher who has been as dominant as Greinke through 10 starts. Greinke is now 8-1 with an 0.84 ERA. Tuesday night, he threw his fifth complete game &#8212; that&#8217;s as many as any <em>team </em>in baseball, and it&#8217;s more than the Royals have had the last two seasons <em>combined</em>.</p><p>Numbers: Zack Greinke has now gone 14 consecutive starts without giving up a home run. That&#8217;s a Royals record.</p><p>Numbers: Zack Greinke has now started a season with 10 consecutive starts of giving up two runs or less. That, too, is a Royals record, and it&#8217;s two shy of the big league record.</p><p>Numbers: Zack Greinke now has struck out 81, walked 12, and allowed a total of 67 base runners in 75 innings pitched.</p><p>Even numbers that good don&#8217;t tell the full story of Greinke&#8217;s brilliance when he&#8217;s on, really on, like he was on Tuesday. Greinke had spent Monday&#8217;s game watching Detroit&#8217;s ace Justin Verlander blow away the Royals, and he had a thought: &#8220;If I faced that guy 100 times, I wouldn&#8217;t get a hit off him.&#8221;</p><p>That thought actually emboldened him. Greinke has spent a lot of time this year trying to make sure he stays one step ahead of the hitters. That&#8217;s important to him. Greinke thinks like a hitter &#8212; this, I think, is one of his great strengths &#8212; and so he constantly finds himself thinking how hitters will try to attack him. And then he pitches accordingly.</p><p>But watching Verlander he realized that if you&#8217;re good &#8212; really good &#8212; there&#8217;s not a whole lot hitters can do. And that, in a strange way, comforted him. He did not have to always out-think hitters. He did not have to be two steps ahead every time out. No. He just had to be really good.