{"id":662532,"date":"2026-04-04T10:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/662532\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T10:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:14:16","slug":"guardians-bring-1-0-series-advantage-over-cubs-into-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/662532\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians bring 1-0 series advantage over Cubs into game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Cubs (3-4) vs. Cleveland Guardians (5-3)<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland; Saturday, 7:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p>PITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs: Shota Imanaga (0-1, 7.20 ERA, 1.60 WHIP, seven strikeouts); Guardians: Slade Cecconi (0-1, 12.46 ERA, 2.08 WHIP, five strikeouts)<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians lead 1-0 in a three-game series with the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland went 88-74 overall and 45-36 in home games last season. The Guardians batted .226 as a team in the 2025 season with a .670 OPS.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago went 92-70 overall and 42-39 on the road a season ago. The Cubs scored 4.9 runs per game while giving up 4.0 in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Guardians: George Valera: 10-Day IL (calf), Andrew Walters: 15-Day IL (lat), Hunter Gaddis: 15-Day IL (forearm)<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Cubs: Cade Horton: day-to-day (forearm), Porter Hodge: 15-Day IL (elbow), Seiya Suzuki: 10-Day IL (knee), Justin Steele: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Wicks: 15-Day IL (forearm), Shelby Miller: 60-Day IL (elbow), Christopher Austin: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Data Skrive;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Data Skrive&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sportradar;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Sportradar&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs (3-4) vs. Cleveland Guardians (5-3) Cleveland; Saturday, 7:15 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs: Shota Imanaga (0-1,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[10986,5,735,24,135,51,2565,42301,538,947,875,393,4,889,105,849,770,9113],"class_list":{"0":"post-662532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-guardians","8":"tag-andrew-walters","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-cade-horton","11":"tag-chicago-cubs","12":"tag-cleveland","13":"tag-cleveland-guardians","14":"tag-clevelandguardians","15":"tag-george-valera","16":"tag-guardians","17":"tag-hunter-gaddis","18":"tag-jordan-wicks","19":"tag-justin-steele","20":"tag-mlb","21":"tag-porter-hodge","22":"tag-seiya-suzuki","23":"tag-shelby-miller","24":"tag-shota-imanaga","25":"tag-slade-cecconi"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116345912766585855","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662532","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=662532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}