Yu Darvish posted yet another masterful performance Friday night, providing the kind of comfortable support you’d expect from an ace. In doing so, he solidified himself atop the Cy Young leaderboard with some dude named Fried, which is only too fitting because that’s the kind of chicken Darvish taunted a Twitter troll to eat until death.
Esoteric jokes aside, this latest effort pushed Darvish into a statistical stratosphere not reached by a Cubs pitcher since before the organization’s first World Series title. According to the postgame notes via MLB.com’s Jordan Bastian, Darvish is the first Cubs pitcher to win seven straight starts and allow one or zero runs in each since Ed Reulbach from August 17-September 19, 1906.