We got a glimpse of two familiar versions of Jake Arrieta in Tuesday’s win, both of which the starter himself was very aware of after the game.
“It started out…really crisp with everything,” Arrieta told reporters in the locker room. “Sinker was moving a lot, command of breaking balls was pretty on point. It got a little sloppy in the 5th and 6th, I got ahead of myself with…just the effort level was too much.”
This was basically my exact breakdown for the Everyplayer feature on The Athletic’s app(link to 15% off), though I had to leave out the stuff about him falling back, literally, as the game wore on.