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OAKLAND, Calif. -- After the way Cubs right-hander Jake Arrieta finished last season en route to winning the National League Cy Young Award and started this season, he was overdue for a rough streak.Arrieta went 11-0 with a 0.57 ERA over his final 13 regular-season starts last year, and the Cubs went 13-0 during that stretch. This year, he went 9-0 with a 1.72 ERA in his first 10 starts as the Cubs won all 10.But over his past five starts, Arrieta has gone 0-3 with a 4.88 ERA, and the Cubs have lost all five games. Hell try to end that skid Saturday afternoon against the Oakland As in the second game of a three-game series at the Oakland Coliseum.I just think we all (have) high highs and lows, catcher David Ross said Friday before the Cubs 7-2 victory against Oakland. Its going to be hard to sustain what he was doing. I dont think anythings wrong.I think we all went through a little stretch there where we were kind of fatigued. I think the All-Star break helped him recover and hes pitched well since then. It could be fatigue, it could be rhythm, it could be any number of things. But for how long he sustained just being completely unhittable, I think everybody said, Whats wrong? when he gives up a couple runs.Arrieta (12-5) certainly isnt sweating his mini-slump. In his previous start, he gave up two runs on two hits over seven innings in a 4-1 loss to Seattle. Two starts before that, he held the Mets to one run on five hits over seven innings and got a no-decision in a 2-1 loss.Yeah, two hits, Arrieta said of his start against the Mariners. Two walks in the 8th or it could have easily been a different story. A couple close calls led to a couple base runners. They ended up getting a couple.Sometimes this game does weird things to you. But trying to get locked in and be at our best individually down the stretch is the most important thing for us. Thats kind of what were striving to do.Oakland catcher Stephen Vogt said the As are expecting nothing but the best from Arrieta.I faced him a lot in the minor leagues, Vogt said. You cant say enough about what hes done over the last couple years. Its pretty special. Im looking forward to the challenge. Hes got some of the best numbers in baseball and hes had some of the best success over the last couple years. It will be a good challenge for us. Im looking forward to it.As right-hander Sonny Gray will be looking again to recapture the command he had last year when he finished third in the American League Cy Young Award voting. Gray is 5-10 with a 5.84 ERA and 15 wild pitches.Obviously hes frustrated and obviously hes working to get better every day, Vogt said. Its just been kind of when he hasnt been good, they take advantage of him, and when he has been good, bounces havent gone his way.So its kind of been an up-and-down season for him. But hes handling it well. I think hes learning. 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Andy Murray is set to return to Great Britains Davis Cup team for next weekends semifinal against Argentina in Glasgow.The world No. 2, who sat out the quarterfinal in Serbia in July following his Wimbledon triumph, was named in a provisional five-man team alongside Kyle Edmund, Dan Evans, Jamie Murray and Dom Inglot.Murrays participation could yet depend on how he fares at the US Open, where he eased through to the quarterfinals on Monday night with a thumping win over Grigor Dimitrov.The Davis Cup tie begins at the Emirates Arena on September 16, only five days after the final in New York.But, unlike the Serbia clash, Murray would not have to contend with a change of surface and, injury permitting, seems almost certain to play.Edmund rose to the challenge of replacing Murray superbly on the clay in Belgrade to extend the champions winning run to six matches.The 21-year-old would have cause to feel very hard done by were he to miss out in Glasgow having reached the fourth round of the US Open but Evans has also staked a strong claim.He is narrowly ahead of Edmund in the rankings and matched his Wimbledon showing by reaching the third round in New York, where he held match point before losing in five sets to world number three Stan Wawrinka.Captain Leon Smith must cut his team from five to four by the draw next Thursday but could include both Evans and Edmund if Andy Murray is keeen once again to play doubles with brother Jamie.ddddddddddddSmith said: It has been a great summer for the British players with Andy once again leading from the front and the performances from the players at the US Open gives us a lot of momentum going into the tie.We are confident that we can do the job at the Emirates, although we know we are up against an Argentina team with impressive strength in depth, and of course the return to form of Juan Martin del Potro makes their team stronger again.Murrays last Davis Cup action came against Japan in March, when he edged an epic five-setter against Kei Nishikori to win the tie.He showed once again that wearing a Great Britain shirt brings out the best in him by winning a second consecutive Olympic singles gold medal in Rio last month.A rematch with the man he defeated in the final, a resurgent Del Potro, could provide a fitting climax to the Argentina tie.Joining Del Potro in Argentinas team will be world No. 43 Federico Delbonis, 51st-ranked Guido Pella and 117th-ranked Leonardo Mayer.Great Britain and Argentina have met four times before, with the South Americans winning three times, most recently in Buenos Aires in 2008.The winners of the tie will face either France or Croatia in the final in November. 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