It was noticeable from the beginning – Arrieta was on his B game tonight, while the D’Backs were on their A game. Even though, Jake Arrieta‘s B-game is better than most people’s B-games, it was obvious that he didn’t have his stuff.
The defense didn’t have their stuff, either. A couple of errors messed things up a bit. They were dumb, annoying errors, too, not even the ones where you can argue “but he has such great range” or whatever other excuses folks come up with. They were just boneheaded errors. The Cubs were looking like fools on defense.