{"id":11342,"date":"2025-06-18T20:57:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T00:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/imanaga-assessed-cubs-await-return-after-rehab-in-iowa\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T20:57:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T00:57:32","slug":"imanaga-assessed-cubs-await-return-after-rehab-in-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/imanaga-assessed-cubs-await-return-after-rehab-in-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Imanaga Assessed: Cubs Await Return After Rehab in Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chicago Cubs to Evaluate Shota Imanaga After His Next Start<\/h2>\n\n\nCHICAGO \u2013 The Chicago Cubs are awaiting Shota Imanaga&#8217;s next outing in Triple-A Iowa on Friday to determine the next steps to take.\n\nImanaga is in the process of recovering after suffering a strain in his left hamstring. The left-handed pitcher has a 3-2 record with an ERA of 2.82 in eight starts for the Cubs this season.\n\nThe incident that caused the injury to 31-year-old Imanaga occurred during the sixth inning of a game against Milwaukee on May 4, in which the Cubs lost 4-0.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We just want to evaluate Friday&#8217;s output and proceed from there.<\/p><cite>Craig Counsell, Cubs Manager<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nImanaga has already completed six innings without allowing runs in two rehabilitation outings in the Arizona Complex League. In addition, he threw a bullpen session in Arizona on Tuesday before joining Iowa.\n\nThe return of Imanaga could be a significant boost for the Cubs, who extended their lead in the National League Central to 6.5 games after defeating Milwaukee 5-3 on Tuesday night. Wednesday&#8217;s game against the Brewers was postponed due to rain.\n\nImanaga signed a four-year, $53 million contract with Chicago in January 2024. Last year, he had a 15-3 record with a 2.91 ERA in 29 starts, which earned him a selection to the National League All-Star Game and a fourth-place finish in the National League Rookie of the Year voting.\n\nCubs reliever Porter Hodge is also progressing in Iowa. He is recovering from a left oblique strain.\n\nThe 24-year-old right-handed pitcher pitched a scoreless inning on Tuesday.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>He will have at least one more appearance in Iowa.<\/p><cite>Craig Counsell, Cubs Manager<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nHodge, 24, has a 2-1 record with a 5.12 ERA and two saves in 21 games this season. In 2024, he had a 3-1 record with a 1.88 ERA and nine saves in 39 games.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Cubs to Evaluate Shota Imanaga After His Next Start CHICAGO \u2013 The Chicago Cubs are awaiting Shota Imanaga&#8217;s next outing in Triple-A Iowa on Friday to determine the next steps to take. Imanaga is in the process of recovering after suffering a strain in his left hamstring. The left-handed pitcher has a 3-2 record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[85,344,746,1034],"class_list":{"0":"post-11342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-chicago-cubs","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-rehab","11":"tag-shota-imanaga"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}