Jake the great: Amazing run for Arrieta

PITTSBURGH — Right-hander Jake Arrieta’s incredible run continued on Tuesday night at PNC Park as the Cubs’ ace upped his record to 6-0 with a masterful seven shutout innings of two-hit baseball in a 7-1 win over the Pirates.

The Cubs have won Arrieta’s last 19 starts, a franchise record. He is the first Cubs pitcher to win his first six starts in a season since 1908, when Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown won his first 11 starts to begin the campaign. Brown finished that season with a 29-9 record and 1.47 ERA.

Of course, the game was quite a bit different back then. Nevertheless, Arrieta is on some kind of run, having won three straight NL Pitcher of the Month awards going back to last August. But he does not spend time dwelling on what he has accomplished when there is so much left to do.

“I think the turnover is so fast,” Arrieta said. “I have to come out tommorow and get ready for my next start back at Wrigley Field, so you try and enjoy it, but it’s short lived because of the goals that we have here. We play so many games, so it’s smart to turn the page as quick as possible and get on to the next work day.”

He has tormented the …

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