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Cubs win 23rd straight behind Arrieta to tie mark
- Updated: May 25, 2016
ST. LOUIS — Will Jake Arrieta ever lose a game?
“I hope not,” manager Joe Maddon said a few hours before Arrieta improved to 9-0 this season after the Cubs held on for a 9-8 victory over the Cardinals on Wednesday at Busch Stadium. The Cubs now have won Arrieta’s last 23 starts — a franchise record and tying the Major League mark set by the Braves behind Kris Medlen in 2012 — and he is the first Cubs starter to open a season 9-0 since Ken Holtzman did so in 1967.
Arrieta wasn’t as cyborg-like as he has been and described his outing with a word that isn’t exactly family friendly. He scattered seven hits over five innings and was charged with a season-high four runs, snapping his record run of 30 straight starts of three earned runs or fewer. The Cardinals tallied in the first on Stephen Piscotty’s RBI single, marking the first the first time the right-hander had given up a run in the opening inning since last May 29 when the Royals beat him.
“I came out and felt really good,” Arrieta said. “My timing was as good as it’s been all year. They put some good swings on some pitches. The cutter down to Randal Grichuk that he hit out in the second wasn’t a bad pitch. He put a good swing on it. Same thing with Matt Adams. I had a manageable pitch count to pitch in the game a little longer, but …
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