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Jon Lester strikes a balance between starts
- Updated: May 27, 2016
10:50 AM ET
CHICAGO — So what does an elite pitcher do between starts after experiencing a rare off day on the mound? It’s a question which can be asked of both Chicago Cubs stars Jake Arrieta and Jon Lester. Both were hit unusually hard in their latest outings, a five-inning stint for Arrieta on Wednesday and just a 2 2/3 innings appearance for Lester last Saturday against the San Francisco Giants.
Lester gave up six hits and five runs, ending a run of 48 consecutive regular-season starts by a Cubs pitcher of at least five innings. A few days later, Arrieta barely made it through five himself. With Lester’s turn up again on Friday, he was asked what he worked on over the past four days.
“Just because you have a bad one, you don’t want to go out and have what I call the grudge-f— bullpens when you’re throwing 70 pitches and trying to reinvent the wheel,” Lester said earlier this week. “It’s a matter of scaling back after a bad one. You don’t want to change something that isn’t …
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