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Cubs pitcher Jake Arrieta hit two home runs last season, but this bomb in the second inning of Sunday’s game off Shelby Miller was no joke.
Arrieta absolutely torched a fastball to left-center field, and it reached the second level at Chase Field. The walls at Chase Field are already deep, but those dimensions couldn’t hold Arrieta’s two-run homer.
There is nothing better in baseball than a pitcher hitting a home run because it visually gets on the nerves of the opposing pitcher. Miller could only shake his head.
But it’s no fluke when you take someone deep 440 feet. That was Paul Goldschmidt territory.
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/04/cubs...-shelby-miller
Pretty Good Distance for a pitcher
Arrieta absolutely torched a fastball to left-center field, and it reached the second level at Chase Field. The walls at Chase Field are already deep, but those dimensions couldn’t hold Arrieta’s two-run homer.
There is nothing better in baseball than a pitcher hitting a home run because it visually gets on the nerves of the opposing pitcher. Miller could only shake his head.
But it’s no fluke when you take someone deep 440 feet. That was Paul Goldschmidt territory.
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/04/cubs...-shelby-miller
Pretty Good Distance for a pitcher