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Run on Jon Lester? Not with Willson Contreras behind the plate

It was the fourth inning at Wrigley Field, and he had just walked. He wanted to steal on Chicago Cubs pitcher John Lackey and catcher Willson Contreras, but he got a bad jump and stopped, caught in no-man's land. Before he knew it, the ball was in first baseman Anthony Rizzo's glove, and Conteras had earned his fourth pickoff of the season.

"I would say he [Contreras] has a really good arm," Schebler stated the next day. "The accuracy is more impressive than the arm strength. It kind of seems like he puts it right on the button.