{"id":356939,"date":"2025-10-02T11:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T11:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/356939\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T11:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T11:45:11","slug":"what-time-is-the-cubs-game-today-start-time-channel-and-more-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/356939\/","title":{"rendered":"What time is the Cubs game today? Start time, channel and more \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Cubs are facing a do-or-die Game 3 in their Wild Card Series against the San Diego Padres, but timing for the showdown will be different from Games 1 and 2. <\/p>\n<p>After an encouraging win in Game 1, Chicago is now looking to bounce back after losing Game 2 by a score of 3-0 Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>This will mark the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/sports\/mlb\/chicago-cubs\/cubs-make-wrong-kind-of-history-in-loss-vs-padres\/3832391\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fourth time in Cubs history<\/a> that they\u2019ve played a game at Wrigley Field in which both teams were at risk of elimination.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what we know about the game so far.<\/p>\n<p>What time do the Cubs play?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/2025-mlb-playoff-and-world-series-schedule\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/2025-mlb-playoff-and-world-series-schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The start time for Game 3 will be later than the first two.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the New York Yankees extending their series against the Boston Red Sox and the Dodgers finishing their series against the Red, the start time for Chicago&#8217;s Game 3 became 4:08 p.m. CT. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THREE winner-take-all Wild Card Game 3s on Thursday! \ud83d\ude0d<\/p>\n<p>-Detroit at Cleveland, 3:08 p.m. ET (ABC)<br \/>-San Diego at Chicago, 5:08 p.m. ET (ESPN)<br \/>-Boston at New York, 8:08 p.m. ET (ESPN)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1973607850892300432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 2, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What channel is the game on?<\/p>\n<p>Game 3 will air on ESPN, according to Major League Baseball. <\/p>\n<p>Who are the starting pitchers?<\/p>\n<p>Yu Darvish gets the ball for San Diego on Thursday, and Jameson Taillon starts for Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Darvish played for the Cubs for three seasons before he was traded to the Padres in December 2020. The right-hander said he enjoys pitching at Wrigley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, this place did me good,\u201d he said through a translator. \u201cThe organization, the fans did me good, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Cubs are facing a do-or-die Game 3 in their Wild Card Series against the San Diego&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,44757,4,43,137,18,4339,4338],"class_list":{"0":"post-356939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cubs-playoffs","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-padres","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-san-diego-padres","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-sandiegopadres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115304406983412632","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356939","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=356939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}