{"id":663496,"date":"2026-04-04T22:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663496\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T22:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:05:14","slug":"cubs-guardians-postponed-by-rain-setting-up-a-traditional-doubleheader-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663496\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs-Guardians postponed by rain, setting up a traditional doubleheader on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 The middle game of the weekend series between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Guardians was postponed on Saturday night, two hours before the scheduled first pitch.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader Sunday, with the first game beginning at 1:10 p.m. EDT.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It was overcast when the teams and umpire crew met at 5 p.m. EDT, but weather radar showed a large cell of rain and thunderstorms coming in from the West and lasting for at least four hours.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago will send right-hander Edward Cabera (1-0) to the hill against Slade Cecconi (0-1) in the first game.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a matchup of left-handers in the nightcap with the Cubs\u2019 Shota Imanaga (0-1) facing the Guardians&#8217; Parker Messick (1-0).<\/p>\n<p>Imanaga was originally scheduled to pitch on Saturday night against Cecconi.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb;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;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 The middle game of the weekend series between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Guardians was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,24,135,51,2565,1550,538,4,8576,770,9113],"class_list":{"0":"post-663496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-guardians","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago-cubs","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-guardians","12":"tag-clevelandguardians","13":"tag-doubleheader","14":"tag-guardians","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-saturday-night","17":"tag-shota-imanaga","18":"tag-slade-cecconi"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116348710479684148","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663496","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=663496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}