Cubs Arrieta tosses 6th no-hitter of 2015

UNDATED (AP) — Jake Arrieta has become baseball's first 17-game winner in most emphatic fashion.

The Chicago Cubs right-hander tossed a no-hitter against the L.A. Dodgers, the second time in 10 days the Dodgers were no-hit. The Cubs won 2-0. Kris Bryant's two-run homer in the first inning produced all the scoring. Arrieta is 17-6. It's the Cubs' 14th no-hitter, and their first since Carlos Zambrano did it in 2008. Arrieta is just the third visiting pitcher to toss a no-hitter at Dodger Stadium.

Arrieta struck out a season-high 12 and walked one. His no-hitter followed one that Houston's Mike Fiers tossed against the Dodgers on Aug. 21. After Arrieta struck out the side in the ninth, he was mobbed by his Cubs teammates. The Dodgers had just two baserunners -- Kike Hernandez reached on an error in the third and Jimmy Rollins walked in the sixth.

It's the sixth no-hitter in the majors this season, and third in 18 days. San Francisco's Chris Heston, Washington's Max Scherzer, Cole Hamels then of the Phillies, Seattle's Hisashi Iwakuma and Fiers also authored no-hitters.

The Dodgers maintained their three and a-half game lead over the second-place Giants in the NL West while the Cubs lead the Giants by five and a-half games in the race for the second NL wild card.