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Pirates on list of clubs who can’t solve Arrieta
- Updated: May 4, 2016
PITTSBURGH — Matt Joyce had hit against Jake Arrieta before Tuesday night. Joyce had hit Arrieta well, in fact, with seven hits in 14 at-bats. That was years ago, when Joyce played for the Rays and Arrieta was a struggling starter for the Orioles.
“He’s facing a different guy now,” Arrieta said. “It’s a little different story.”
Arrieta once again proved that he’s different — from his former self and, really, from any other pitcher in baseball — as he shut out the Pirates for seven innings in the Cubs’ 7-1 win at PNC Park. It was a familiar scene for the Bucs, who were shut out by Arrieta on their home field in last year’s NL Wild Card Game.
Arrieta is 5-1 with a 0.52 ERA and 49 strikeouts in 52 innings against the Pirates since the start of the 2015 season, including his 11-strikeout Wild Card Game shutout. He has thrown 23 consecutive scoreless innings against the Bucs.
The Pirates managed two hits, both singles, off the reigning NL Cy Young Award winner. He didn’t walk anybody after the first inning, locating all of …
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