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Jake Arrieta lost on Sunday, but his streak was still really impressive

In the days between Chicago Cubs pitcher Jake Arrieta’s last two regular-season losses, 481 pitchers lost a regular-season game.

Jake Arrieta.431
Clayton Kershaw.445
Marco Estrada.563
Madison Bumgarner.568
Stephen Strasburg.570

Arrieta’s winning streak ended at 20 straight decisions. Elias Sports Bureau research shows that only two pitchers have had longer winning streaks – New York Giants Hall-of-Fame starter Carl Hubbell (24 from 1936 to 1937) and Pirates reliever Roy Face (22 from 1958 to 1959).