The start time for Game 3 has not yet been decided. <\/a>With the New York Yankees extending their series against the Boston Red Sox, there are two different times at which the game could start:<\/p>\n2:08 p.m.: This will be the start time if the Cincinnati Reds extend their series against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
4:08 p.m.: This will be the start time if the Dodgers finish their series against the Reds. <\/p>\n
Who are the starting pitchers?<\/p>\n
Former Cubs pitcher Yu Darvish is set to get the ball for the Padres, while Jameson Taillon will start Game 3 for the North Siders.<\/p>\n
Darvish posted a 5-5 record and a 5.38 ERA in 15 starts this season, striking out 68 batters in 72 innings of work.<\/p>\n
Darvish has pitched against the Cubs in the playoffs before, throwing 6.1 innings of one-run ball in Game 3 of the 2017 National League Championship Series.<\/p>\n
In five starts for the Padres against the Cubs since a 2021 trade sent him to San Diego, Darvish has a record of 3-1 with a 2.10 ERA, with 33 strikeouts in 30 innings.<\/p>\n
Taillon has had a strong finish to the season after dealing with injury, posting an overall record of 11-7 with a 3.68 ERA in 23 starts with the Cubs. Thursday will mark his third playoff appearance, having given up three earned runs in 4.1 innings with the Yankees.<\/p>\n
How have the Cubs fared in winner-take-all games at Wrigley Field?<\/p>\n
This will mark the fourth time in Cubs history that they\u2019ve played a game at Wrigley Field in which both teams were at risk of elimination.<\/p>\n
The Cubs are 0-3 in those games, losing Game 7 of the 1945 World Series against the Detroit Tigers, Game 7 of the 2003 National League Championship Series against the Florida Marlins, and the 2018 National League Wild Card Game against the Colorado Rockies.<\/p>\n
Who\u2019s Hot, Who\u2019s Not<\/p>\n
For the Cubs, Seiya Suzuki has a pair of extra-base hits in the series, including a double in Wednesday\u2019s loss. Nico Hoerner also has three hits so far.<\/p>\n
Pete Crow-Armstrong is decidedly not hot, having gone 0-for-6 with five strikeouts so far in the series. Ian Happ hasn\u2019t been much better, going 0-for-8 with five strikeouts during the series.<\/p>\n
No Cubs pitcher appeared in both games, though the Cubs\u2019 bullpen has given up one run in 9.2 innings, with Andrew Kittredge giving up a run as the opener in Wednesday\u2019s loss.<\/p>\n
Daniel Palencia had a pair of strikeouts in Game 1 on Tuesday, while Colin Rea had one hit allowed and one strikeout in 1.2 innings Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Cubs and San Diego Padres are set to square off in a winner-take-all Game 3 on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,4245,161,44757,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-356553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-chicagocubs","12":"tag-cubs","13":"tag-cubs-playoffs","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115303317799733429","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}