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Saturday Cubs Notes: Darvish Shoves with 6 Pitches, Mekkes Looks Trim, Morrow Can’t Stay Healthy

Yu Darvish started out about as poorly as a pitcher can, giving up a home run to Orlando Arcia on his first pitch, but he quickly settled in and unleashed most of his arsenal over two innings of work. The big righty said after the game that he threw a cutter, hard cutter, slider, knuckle curveball, and two-seam in addition to a fastball that touched 98 mph several times.

I counted 14 pitches and 7 swings and misses for Darvish in that inning. Sitting 95, touched 98 twice. I'd say that's good for the last day of February.