Nationals (Irvin) vs Cubs (Imanaga): 3/29/26, 1:20pm

[Outshined_One]

36 minutes ago, Stratos said:

https://x.com/MLBBruceLevine/status/2037961487797436456

Kinda surprised no one claimed him. He's got the profile and stuff to be a quality RP, and a team with a crap bullpen could do worse.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

2 hours ago, Derwood said:

I know people are itchy about Shota and the long ball, but I'm here to remind you that 25 of the 31 homers he surrendered in 2025 were solo shots

horsefeathers

[Geographyhater8888]

Losing 2/3 to scrubs would be rough. Cubs did that only 3X in 2025 and once to the Nationals.

Edited March 29 by Geographyhater8888

[PeanutPunch33]

7 minutes ago, Papa Cub said:

It’s what he does - way too early and little sample size, but their pitching is looking like hot garbage so far. Horton and hopefully Cabrera can be stable. The others I have zero confidence in 

I really wanted Sandy Alcantara instead of Cabrera.  IMO, he's one of the best pitchers in the game when healthy and the Cubs could have had him at a discount.  And he threw 7 scoreless innings in his debut.  Cabrera better deliver because that was a high risk move.  

[chibears55]

9 minutes ago, Jason Ross said:

To be fair to Shota, that pitch (labeled here as 4) is well off the plate. 

Double whammy...

Didn't throw a strike and the pitch was still hittable enough to drive out 🙄🤷

Lol

[Papa Cub]

14 minutes ago, PeanutPunch33 said:

Imanaga is ass 

Straight 

[JHBulls]

Maybe Shota kind of sucks at times because of a pitchcom language barrier. 

[mk49]

Now, score some runs!

[jorbloss]

Now this is coming from a guy that doesn’t actually know that much about baseball but this feels like bad luck so far. Hopefully the pendulum swings back.

[Eeyore]

Getting BABIP'd today 

[BKHoo]

2 hours ago, Derwood said:

I know people are itchy about Shota and the long ball, but I'm here to remind you that 25 of the 31 homers he surrendered in 2025 were solo shots

Did not age well. 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

12 minutes ago, JHBulls said:

Maybe Shota kind of sucks at times because of a pitchcom language barrier. 

This is a crazy take.

[Tryptamine]

So apparently Murakami is Babe Ruth and the rest of the league is stupid. His third game in a row with a HR.

[JHBulls]

Just now, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

This is a crazy take.

Yeah, I was joking. 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Just now, JHBulls said:

Yeah, I was joking. 

Sorry, I couldn't detect the sarcasm.

[Jason Ross]

Shota has 13 swings and misses and his fastball velo is sitting at 92.3mph on the day, mirroring his 92.5mph in Spring Training. He gave up a home run, but I'm encouraged by the stuff and misses. Those are really good signs.

[Geographyhater8888]

Offense is getting Bryce Elder’d so far. 

[mk49]

I'm more frustrated by the Cubs offense.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Bro, who the horsefeathers is this guy

[chibears55]

Bats looking awesome today, cant blame the wind.

Cubs about to go down 4 here

[chibears55]

Just seen Taillon is scheduled to start Tuesday over going back to Boyd, this could be a Horton Cabrera and pray for rain start of the season...  lol

[chibears55]

Nice job by Shota getting out of that..

Let go bats

[Jason Ross]

I've been told Bregman couldn't possibly be good since the Cubs aren't cheating.

[Jason Ross]

Happ sucks.

[JHBulls]

First of hopefully many Cub HR’s for Bregman,