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Big chill: Mets make Jake Arrieta look ordinary, take 2-0 lead in NLCS
NEW YORK – Jake Arrieta's first pitch Sunday night, a fastball, missed everything. Everything but the backstop, actually, after it had cleared a catcher's mitt by plenty and an umpire's right leg by an inch or two. He'd worked toward that pitch for six days and nights. He'd measured his steps, and abided his routine, and stood on the mound at a raucous Citi Field. He'd felt the series on his shoulders and the ball in his hand and then thrown that ball clear to the backstop.
He'd throw 93 more pitches, a couple of which were far more damaging, both to the Chicago Cubsand to the chosen baseball. As the veteran catcher David Ross would say several times late Sunday, "This is baseball," which is his way of affirming there's rarely a true or standard or inevitable outcome. Sometimes you win 22 games and are carried from the field and other times you throw the fastball you've been thinking about for six days past everything, and a dozen pitches later are probably looking back on the very events that will beat you, with an entire game still out there.
"Well, we've got work to do," Arrieta said. "The good thing is we get to go home and play three games at Wrigley Field. The series is not over."
Potentially three in Chicago.
Arrieta allowed three runs in the first inning Sunday night in Game 2 of the National League championship series, all of them across the first 13 pitches he'd throw. Three hours later, the New York Mets were 4-1 winners, led the series 2-0, and had left open the possibility the next time they're in Queens will be for a World Series game.
NEW YORK – Jake Arrieta's first pitch Sunday night, a fastball, missed everything. Everything but the backstop, actually, after it had cleared a catcher's mitt by plenty and an umpire's right leg by an inch or two. He'd worked toward that pitch for six days and nights. He'd measured his steps, and abided his routine, and stood on the mound at a raucous Citi Field. He'd felt the series on his shoulders and the ball in his hand and then thrown that ball clear to the backstop.
He'd throw 93 more pitches, a couple of which were far more damaging, both to the Chicago Cubsand to the chosen baseball. As the veteran catcher David Ross would say several times late Sunday, "This is baseball," which is his way of affirming there's rarely a true or standard or inevitable outcome. Sometimes you win 22 games and are carried from the field and other times you throw the fastball you've been thinking about for six days past everything, and a dozen pitches later are probably looking back on the very events that will beat you, with an entire game still out there.
"Well, we've got work to do," Arrieta said. "The good thing is we get to go home and play three games at Wrigley Field. The series is not over."
Potentially three in Chicago.
Arrieta allowed three runs in the first inning Sunday night in Game 2 of the National League championship series, all of them across the first 13 pitches he'd throw. Three hours later, the New York Mets were 4-1 winners, led the series 2-0, and had left open the possibility the next time they're in Queens will be for a World Series game.
