Must be the pizza.
“Oh, yeah,” Jose Quintana said after pitching the Cubs to a 10-1 victory over the Athletics on Wednesday. “Seven games after that, right?”
Seven games. Seven Cubs victories.
All of it starting with the day in Cincinnati in June that Quintana called from the bullpen phone to the dugout, and then played along with a media wise guy and “ordered” a pepperoni pizza.
The next day he ended a nine-game winless drought. On Wednesday, he improved to 6-0 with a 3.67 ERA during the seven-start stretch since then – allowing just two hits without a walk in seven innings against the A’s, striking out seven.