Arietta

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

just no-hit the Reds.

Cubs are kinda good so far.

[Guest themetfairy]

And your final score is 16 - 0.

Imagine awarding Schaefer for that game! The pitcher who throws a no hitter probably gets 2 points....

[Edgy MD]

You know, when ESPN suspended Curt Schilling last year, the first game he missed was Arrieta's Sunday night no-hitter.

Somehow...

[list:rdg7pq1h]Disciplining Curt Schilling : Jake Arrieta :: Spinach : Popeye[/list:u:rdg7pq1h]

[Edgy MD]

Here's a holy crap for you: Counting the post-season, the guy is an historic 17-1 with two no-hitters in his last 19 starts.

The one loss came to the Mets in Game Two of the NLCS, back when Daniel Murphy was eating opposing aces for breakfast.

[Frayed Knot]

Originally a 5th round pick by Baltimore out of TCU in 2007, it's not even three full years (July 2013) since the O's got tired of waiting around for Arrieta and dealt him* to the Cubs after 3-1/2 up and down seasons which produced a 20-25 record with a 5.46 ERA over 60 starts.
Since hitting Chicago he's 40-13 with a sub-2.20 ERA plus a CY award and 2 no-hitters to his credit.

The biggest blemish on his record since hitting the windy city? ... probably the three-spot we hung on him in the first three batters [1B - 2B - HR by Grandy - Dabid - Murph] en route to a 4 ER / 4 Hit / 2 BB in 5 IP (L) performance in Game 2 NLCS last October.






* traded [u:2plsjxsc]with[/u:2plsjxsc] reliever Pedro Strop for Steve Clevinger & Scott Feldman. Neither Clevinger nor Feldman remain w/the O's while Strop's been the Cubs' main set-up man ever since the deal.
Think Baltimore might want a mulligan on that one?

[Lefty Specialist]

Kind of awesome that we caught him on his one bad day in, like, the last year.

[seawolf17]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Kind of awesome that we caught him on his one bad day in, like, the last year.

Or it's just that WE'RE THAT GOOD. Good thing we dumped that bum Murphy. What's he doing these days?

/checks league batting leaders

Oh.

(Just making a joke, people.)

[Frayed Knot]

Arietta's last 11 reg season starts (running from Aug 30, his first no-hitter, thru yesterday's no-no): 86 IP (7.8 IP/game); 6 Runs; 37 Hits; 10 BBs; 84 K. 10 Wins, 1 ND

[Frayed Knot]

Dialing back the Arrieta freakiness a bit further to take in his last 24 starts - dating back to late June 2015

24 starts, 20-1 record plus 3 ND. Cubs won 2 of those 3 so the team is 22-2 in his last 24 starts
178 Innings with 91 Hits allowed
33 BB vs 173 K
17 ER allowed = 0.86 ERA
4 HRs allowed vs [u:27caqtf5]3 HRs hit[/u:27caqtf5]!!

So that's more no-hitters (2) than losses (1) over a four month span and almost as many HRs hit as allowed.
And how did he lose that one game? That was the game where the Cubs got no-hit by Cole Hamels making his Philly phinale.

[Frayed Knot]

Arrieta's shot at 'the Van der Meer' went out the window with a leadoff single today in Chicago. Also walked two in that opening inning to load 'em up for Kirk Nieuwenhuis ... who K'd on a full count to end the frame with no runs scored.