He allowed five runs on seven hits while walking three and striking out one. “When you have 71 pitches after three (innings), you typically got a lot more on you than the three runs they had”.
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The Cubs are 56-23 at Wrigley Field this season, the best home record in Major League Baseball.
“The big thing for me is controlling my effort”, Arrieta said.
If they do, the Cardinals may be the one club that won’t be fazed by Wrigley Field and the Cubs. Chicago right-hander Jason Hammel, who gets the start Saturday, is 10-1 with a 1.84 ERA in 14 starts at Wrigley Field this season and has won his last seven home starts while posting a 0.98 ERA. The Cubs also won 56 games in their own ballpark in both 1933 and 1935.
The Cardinals, on the outside looking in for one of two final wild card berths, will try to break out of a two-game losing streak as Alex Reyes (3-1, 1.03 ERA) makes his 11th appearance and fourth start of the season in Saturday’s middle game of the Cubs-Cardinals series. And that’s what I did today. In the first inning, the three hits were check swings, sliders that had no depth.
“Being down four against a good team puts your back against the wall”.
Anthony Rizzo drove in and scored a run during the first-inning rally while Ben Zobrist and Chris Coghlan each added an RBI hit. Martinez comes off a 5-3 win at Colorado with two runs scoring over five innings.
For the Cubs, who are good enough to beat teams while they’re coasting, it was the ideal formula. After winning the Cy Young last season and starting this year 9-0, Arrieta encountered some command struggles, as he’s walked 26 more batters hits season than last and been burned on occasion because of it. which felt like a letdown at times. Hopefully, we can continue it. Stephen Piscotty drilled his 22nd home run of the season into the bleachers beyond left field.
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Cardinals: LF Matt Holliday (broken right thumb) took batting practice off RHP Mike Mayers before the game. SS Aledmys Diaz (arm fatigue) was out of the lineup. Holliday has been on the disabled list since August 12 with a right thumb fracture and has missed 37 games. Cubs LF Jorge Soler (tight side) is back in the lineup after not starting since September 16.
The Cubs surprised David Ross with a touching video tribute before Friday’s series-opener against the Cardinals that brought the retiring catcher (and plenty of fans who’ve seen it) to tears.
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Pedro Strop came off the disabled list to work the eighth, and Travis Wood and Carl Edwards Jr. finished the five-hitter. The Cubs plan to pitch him about three times during the final week of the regular season. Maddon said. “Watching from the side, it looked really familiar – the way they were taking some pitches, the strikeouts, the cutter/slider looked sharper”. The Cubs’ scheduled rotation for their four-game series against the Pirates starting on Monday is: RHP Kyle Hendricks on Monday, RHP John Lackey on Tuesday, RHP Jake Arrieta on Wednesday and a bullpen day on Thursday.
