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Cubs Daily Clips November 1, 2016 Chicago Sun-Times Maddon looks to Arrieta to go deep, take Cubs to Game 7 By Daryl Van Schouwen CLEVELAND — Of all the great things right-hander Jake Arrieta has done in such a relatively short time frame – think 0.75 second half ERA in 2015, the lowest in the history of the game – what will it matter should he fail to pitch the Cubs into Game 7 of the World Series Tuesday night? It’s unfair to say what the 2015 National League Cy Young Award winner has accomplished – he followed that second half with a good, not great 3.10 ERA in 2016 – won’t mean much if he doesn’t come through against the Indians in Game 6 at Progressive Field, but such is the nature of sports. It’s ‘What have you done for me in the last three hours?’ Or ‘What did you do when your team needed you to pass the baton to Kyle Hendricks for Game 7?’ In the last week, Arrieta did enough to help the Cubs win Game 2 in Cleveland, a 5-1 Cubs victory in which he took a no-hitter into the sixth inning but did not finish the frame. But if he’s not sharp Tuesday, Arrieta will be remembered this entire offseason and into next year for what he didn’t accomplish in Game 6. Arrieta knows this, and he says he has to guard against trying to shoulder more burden than he’s capable of. This is what some of the Cubs young hitters have done in the World Series and, by perhaps swinging for the long ball instead of trying to simplify and contribute a quality, productive at-bat, have doomed themselves to failure. Arrieta, who pitched the Cubs into the first round of the playoffs by dominating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 2015 Wild Card game, can’t let that happen on the mound. “I don’t necessarily know if we have that mindset,’’ Arrieta said of the Cubs starters. “We go out there and focus on executing and trying to limit the opponent to as few runs as possible, regardless of how many we score. That’s the intent. I have to take care of my end of the bargain to the best of my ability, and I know that our offense is doing the exact same thing.’’ There is some pressure on Arrieta to go deep into this game, though. While closer Aroldis Chapman will have a full day of rest with the off day Monday, he did throw a hefty 42 pitches over 2 2/3 innings in the Cubs’ 3-2 victory in Game 5 and likely won’t be available for anything that long, so Cubs manager Joe Maddon said Monday he needs at least six innings from Arrieta. The good thing? Arrieta, who needed 98 pitches to get through 5 2/3 inning in Game 2 (he struck out six and walked three), will be working on five days rest. On the flip side, the Indians are using three starters, pitching them on three days rest, and taxing their bullpen. But it’s a formula that has worked to the tune of a 10-3 record this postseason. For Arrieta, the extra day welcome this time of year. “It should be helpful,’’ Maddon said. “Most pitchers are used to full or even extra rest this time of the year. There will have to be an adrenaline surge for the Cleveland pitchers but they’re not looking for seven innings.’’ From Arrieta, Maddon is looking for “at least six and seven possibly.’’ This is where Arrieta needs to step forward, again, and back his signature swagger with a strong, deep performance. Swagger? This is the guy who, when told he might go 30-2 this season after making two 2015-like starts out of the gate, said, “Why not 32-0?” Maddon is saying, “How about seven good innings?” “It’s up to us to take it to that seventh game,’’ Maddon said, “and then you’re really going to have a classic everyone will remember. We feel good about having Jake pitching tomorrow.’’ -- Chicago Sun-Times Can the Cubs do this thing? Sure they can By Rick Morrissey CLEVELAND – Hope has been a Cubs fan’s best friend for more than a century, but it always seemed to be aimed at a distant speck on the horizon. Suddenly, shockingly, wait until next year has become wait until tomorrow. Hope might not be strutting quite yet, but it does have a skip in its step. The Cubs play the Indians in Game 6 of the World Series on Tuesday night with every reason to believe that their fortunes have turned and that maybe, just maybe, they can win this thing. That they trail the Indians 3-2 with the final two games in Cleveland might seem to be darkness personified. Forget that. Darkness was being down 3-1 before Game 5 began. Darkness was two straight losses at Wrigley Field going into Sunday night’s game. By comparison, what we have here is a light show of possibility. The Aroldis Chapman game might have changed everything. (If the Cubs do win this series, it will forever be known as the Aroldis Chapman Game, capital “G.’’) Joe Maddon, no shrinking violet, especially on a national stage, surprised just about everybody when he brought his closer into the game with one out in the seventh inning of Game 5. Chapman responded with 2 2/3 innings of shutdown pitching in the 3-2 victory. You’ve heard of air guitar? Cleveland hitters played air bat against him. He struck out four of the eight Indians he faced. This series was always going to be about the pitchers, but they have become even more the focus. The Cubs have Jake Arrieta and Kyle Hendricks scheduled for the next two games, respectively, and the Indians will answer with Josh Tomlin and Corey Kluber, who will pitch on three day’s rest for the second start in a row, if he has to. What this really comes down to, though, is which team can get to its star relievers first. Now that Chapman has broken through whatever barriers he erected about pitching more than an inning, he’ll surely be available for longer work again in Game 6. It really is do or die, and it really is all hands on deck. All those clichés. If the Indians have a lead, they’ll turn to reliever Andrew Miller, who has been almost unhittable in the postseason, and closer Cody Allen. It’s a race to get to the relievers’ arms. Arrieta probably doesn’t want to hear that, but every Cubs starter in the playoffs has learned this lesson. Is Arrieta a better pitcher than Tomlin? Yes, but Tomlin was very good in October, and Arrieta was up and down. If the Cubs want to get to Game 7, they very much need the up version of Arrieta. It would make things so much easier on breathing passages in the greater Chicago metropolitan area. But the feeling among the Cubs and their fans should be one of optimism. There are no givens here, of course. The Indians are a complete team, and it’s going to take something extraordinary to beat them two games in a row at Progressive Field. The Cubs can do extraordinary. They did extraordinary in a 103-victory regular season. They did extraordinary in the Game 5 victory before a roaring crowd at Wrigley. Besides the good Jake, the Cubs could really use the Javy Baez who shared the National League Championship Series most valuable player award with Jon Lester. The guy swinging from his heels and missing badly in the World Series looks like the Javy from 2014, his rookie season. Lurking is Kyle Schwarber, who has a chance to build on his sports miracle story. He’ll DH again in Cleveland after sitting out most of the regular season and all of division and championship series because of a knee injury. In his short time with the Cubs, he has shown a fondness for rising to the occasion. This would be the occasion of all occasions. The last team to win a World Series after being down 3-1 was the 1985 Royals, but they didn’t have to win the final two games on the road to do it. This is going to take some enormously heavy lifting by the Cubs. They’re a strong bunch, but so is Cleveland. The Indians likely didn’t envision themselves winning three straight at Wrigley to close out the Series, so it’s hard to see them on their heels after the Game 5 loss. But this is about what the Cubs are feeling, and the word that comes to mind is emboldened. That’s miles beyond hopeful. -- Chicago Sun-Times Cubs, Indians have been well below their scoring norms By John Grochowski Through National League Division Series and NL Championship Series play, the Cubs were the highest-scoring team in the 2016 postseason. Despite two shutout losses to the Dodgers, the Cubs had scored 48 runs in 10 games, 12 more than the Dodgers had scored in 11 games. At 4.8 runs per game — about the same level as their 4.99 average in the regular season — the Cubs were tied with the Nationals, who scored 24 in a five-game NLDS loss to the Dodgers. Those high-scoring ways have come to an abrupt halt in the World Series.
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