{"id":8041,"date":"2025-05-29T16:09:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T20:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/imanaga-progresses-cubs-pitcher-advances-after-tendon-injury\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T16:09:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T20:09:43","slug":"imanaga-progresses-cubs-pitcher-advances-after-tendon-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/imanaga-progresses-cubs-pitcher-advances-after-tendon-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Imanaga Progresses: Cubs Pitcher Advances After Tendon Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Shota Imanaga Nears Return From Injury<\/h2>\n\nThe Chicago Cubs&#8217; star pitcher, Shota Imanaga, has taken a significant step towards his return to the field after suffering a left hamstring strain.\n\n\n<p>According to manager Craig Counsell, Imanaga threw a 28-pitch bullpen session, in addition to running and fielding practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cOverall, it was a very good day of work,\u201d Counsell stated. \u201cThe idea is to repeat this this weekend, if everything goes well tomorrow, and then move forward from there.\u201d<\/p><cite>Craig Counsell<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe next step for Imanaga could be to move to the Cubs&#8217; training facilities in Mesa, Arizona. This could happen when the team begins a nine-game road trip on Tuesday.\n\n\n<p>Imanaga, who was selected for the All-Star last season in his Major League debut, coming from Japan, had a 15-3 record with a 2.91 ERA in 29 starts. He signed a four-year, $53 million contract with Chicago in January 2024, and finished fourth in the National League Rookie of the Year voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 31-year-old pitcher began this season with a 3-2 record and a 2.82 ERA in eight starts before getting injured in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shota Imanaga Nears Return From Injury The Chicago Cubs&#8217; star pitcher, Shota Imanaga, has taken a significant step towards his return to the field after suffering a left hamstring strain. According to manager Craig Counsell, Imanaga threw a 28-pitch bullpen session, in addition to running and fielding practice. \u201cOverall, it was a very good day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[88,312,290,1034],"class_list":{"0":"post-8041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cubs","10":"tag-injury","11":"tag-shota-imanaga"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041","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=8041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}