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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chicago Cubs pitcher Jake Arrieta said he was not aware that manager Joe Maddon was going to take out catcher Miguel Montero&amp;nbsp;during the middle of a game.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maddon pulled Montero for rookie Willson Contreras after the fourth inning of Wednesday's game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maddon said that the move was already predetermined to get Contreras some work with Arrieta just in case the two have to work together during the playoffs.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"They all knew what was going to happen before that game,\" Maddon said. \"There were no surprises. And there's been no surprises.\"\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Arrieta disagreed with that assessment.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"Going into the game, I was really unaware we were going to go with a catching change,\" Arrieta said.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Arrieta was tagged for a season-high 10 hits, giving up seven earned runs in five innings in an 8\u20134 loss to Pittsburgh.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"It's a difficult balance,\" Cubs general manager Jed Hoyer said. \"We mostly get it right, maybe yesterday [Wednesday] we didn't.\"\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Cubs open the postseason next Friday against the NL Wild Card winner.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Scooby Axson&lt;/em&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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