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Stats of the Day: Arrieta continues epic run
- Updated: May 4, 2016
Here are five interesting items from around the big leagues on Tuesday …
• Jake Arrieta limited the Pirates to two hits over seven scoreless innings in a 7-1 Cubs win to improve to 6-0 with a 0.84 ERA in six starts this season. Arrieta is the eighth pitcher in the live-ball era to win at least 17 consecutive decisions (dating back to last season), and the first to do it since White Sox right-hander Jose Contreras won 17 in a row in 2005-06. Arrieta is seven victories shy of matching Carl Hubbell’s Major League record of 24 straight winning decisions. According to the Cubs’ media notes, Arrieta is the first Cubs pitcher since Three Finger Brown in 1908 to win his first six starts to a season. That year, Brown captured victories in his first 11 starts and went on to claim 29 victories. Over the past 103 years, Arrieta is the only Cubs pitcher to have at least six starts through his team’s first 25 games with an ERA as low as 0.84.
• Seattle’s Robinson Cano homered and doubled in the Mariners’ 8-2 win over the A’s. Cano, who is now in his 12th …
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