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Brown Bag it, Baby
The Chicago Cubs are ready to empty the chamber now that the stakes are at their absolute highest. Tom Verducci of FOX Sports told Colin Cowherd of The Herd on Wednesday that the Cubs have ace righty Jake Arrieta down for 20 pitches, if necessary, in …
The Chicago Cubs will be facing the winner of the National League Wild Card Game in the division series, which opens the door to the rather loaded question of who they’d rather face. With the New York Mets or the San Francisco Giants looming, …
Cubs ace Jake Arrieta will be the proud owner of a Coastal Carolina tattoo after they eliminated TCU from the College World Series. TCU alum Arrieta made a bet with teammate Tommy La Stella, a Coastal Carolina alum, over the outcome of their College …
There has been some recent talk – some serious, some probably for fun – of putting a pitcher in the Home Run Derby. Cubs ace Jake Arrieta has taken that talk a step further: he wants a version of the Home Run Derby for pitchers only. …
The rivalry between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs remains alive and well. The two teams traded hit batsmen during Saturday’s game, with the Pirates in particular accusing Jake Arrieta of throwing at Jung Ho Kang, an allegation the …
“Market value or bust” is the platform that Cubs righty Jake Arrieta is intent to run on. A day after Stephen Strasburg received a seven-year, $175 million extension from the Nationals, Arrieta is clearly seeing dollar signs as well. …
Stud right-hander Jake Arrieta of the Chicago Cubs has looked like the most dominant pitcher in Major League Baseball this year. With a 5-0 record to go along with a 1.00 ERA, a 0.78 WHIP, and 32 strikeouts in his first five starts, Arrieta is …
Jake Arrieta has been destroying hitters everywhere over the past year or so, and naturally, as tends to happen when a once-mediocre ballplayer turns into a world-beater, whispers about PED use began to simmer. Arrieta hit back at those accusations …
Jake Arrieta has gotten so good so suddenly that he is now being chased by PED accusations. The reigning NL Cy Young Award winner says that he has never cheated the game and that PEDs have nothing to do with his sudden success, which includes a 20-1 …
There wasn’t a whole lot the Cincinnati Reds could say after they were no-hit and blown out by Jake Arrieta and the Chicago Cubs, but the person running the team’s official Twitter account did what he or she could. In addition to being …
Jake Arrieta’s dominance appears to know no bounds. Arrieta threw the second no-hitter of his career — second in his last 11 regular season starts at that — as the Chicago Cubs blasted the Cincinnati Reds 16-0 on Thursday. Arrieta …
The Year of the Beard is upon us. Cubs righty Jake Arrieta was announced on Wednesday as the 2015 National League Cy Young Award winner, with Astros southpaw Dallas Keuchel taking home the American League award. Arrieta went 22-6 in 2015 with a 1.77 …
Jake Arrieta proved he is capable of delivering in a big game on Wednesday night when he pitched a complete game shutout to send the Chicago Cubs to the NLDS. Several hours later, the righthander showed us he also has a tremendous sense of humor. …
The Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates got into a benches-clearing incident during their one-game playoff on Wednesday after Jake Arrieta was hit by a pitch in the top of the seventh inning. Arrieta was on the hill for the Cubs and pitching a …
Jake Arrieta has transformed from a below-average pitcher in Baltimore to possibly the best pitcher in the entire league. Since being traded to the Chicago Cubs two years ago, the right-hander has taken his game to another level. In 2015, Arrieta …
Jake Arrieta pitched a no-hitter in a 2-0 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday night, but even he believes he caught a nice break from the official scorekeeper. In the bottom of the third, Kike Hernandez drilled a line drive to second that …
