Arrieta is now the first Cubs pitcher to finish a season with an ERA lower than 2.00 since Grover Cleveland Alexander posted a 1.91 ERA in 1920. Not necessarily overpowering, but he has great command of four pitches.
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“Yeah, and they all look like a strike for a very long time”, Davis said. “And then they just explode out”. “His stuff is electric right now”.
Arrieta will take the mound Wednesday night for the NL wild-card game at PNC Park, and he isn’t scared of pitching in front of a rowdy Pirates crowd.
The Cubs finished the regular season with an eight-game winning streak.
Davis unloaded in the seventh with his deep homer off reliever Trevor Cahill.
“Just put a good swing on it, kept my hands inside”.
Mostly though, the lineup was held in check by Arrieta in his final tuneup before the postseason. “Our general manager should be here for the foreseeable future”, said Braun. I know our fans will show up and it will be loud and it will be proud. This past Friday, it had plenty to do with Jake Arrieta and the Chicago Cubs dealing just 90 minutes from Chicago. You may see a lot of thievery in this one game playoff since Pittsburgh’s pitchers have surrendered the most stolen bases in the N.L. With 143, but those Cubbies are not far behind allowing 136 stolen bases.
The obvious story here though is the Chicago Cubs, who are back in the postseason for the first time since 2007 and are trying to restore the glory they haven’t tasted since their NLCS run back in 2004 – the Bartman year. He allowed two runs in five innings, both coming on a second-inning homer by David Freese.
“I had it as Santana’s ball”.
“We didn’t swing the bats well”, Counsell said.
Chicago Cubs’ Anthony Rizzo hits a two-run scoring single during the first inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Sunday, October 4, 2015, in Milwaukee. The Pirates later re-acquired Cabrera on waivers last season, but released him.
They also got a head start with the on-field product thanks to unrelenting injuries and the series of trades they made late in the summer. The Pirates will have certainly have holes to fill this offseason, but we should all be confident that Neal Huntington will take care of those holes when the time comes.
Starter J.A. Happ pitched six shutout innings, limiting the Reds to three hits and three walks while striking out seven. “I’d like to keep him within that 90-pitch number”. He’s a routine freak. For Brewers fans, this disappointing season is leading to a renewed hope for the future, as the team rebuilds.
As the only player now tied to the Milwaukee Brewers past the 2017 season, rightfielder Ryan Braun has a definite interest in the team’s long-term plan.
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Chicago ended the regular season with a three-game sweep in Milwaukee.
