Jake Arrieta walked to the dugout after the third inning of Tuesday night’s 6-0 loss to the Yankees and carried a feeling that has become all too familiar for the Phillies starter.
His outing unraveled four batters earlier when Cesar Hernandez botched a double-play turn at second base that would have ended the inning. The error led to three runs, all of which were unearned. And the game’s tide shifted.
The three runs pushed Arrieta’s total of unearned runs to a major-league-leading 14. That is nearly half of the total of 29 unearned runs he gave up over the last four seasons with the Cubs.