CHICAGO -- Now that they’ve clinched the National League Central, the Chicago Cubs have a short list of things to accomplish with the rest of the regular season. None of them are more important than getting Jake Arrieta as close to his Cy Young form as they can before the postseason.
Arrieta cruised through five innings Saturday but suffered a lapse with his command in the sixth, leading to three Brewers runs as Milwaukee went on to rout the Cubs 11-3 Saturday. The turning point was a two-run homer by Cubs nemesis Ryan Braun, the first of two longballs on a five-RBI day for the Milwaukee slugger.