{"id":663746,"date":"2026-04-05T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663746\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T01:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:00:38","slug":"cubs-guardians-postponed-by-rain-doubleheader-set-for-sunday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663746\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs-Guardians postponed by rain, doubleheader set for Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND &#8212; The middle game of the weekend series between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/chc\/chicago-cubs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-guardians\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Guardians<\/a> 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. ET.<\/p>\n<p>It was overcast when the teams and umpire crew met at 5 p.m. ET, 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40944\/edward-cabrera\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Cabrera<\/a> (1-0) to the hill against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41462\/slade-cecconi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slade Cecconi<\/a> (0-1) in the first game.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a matchup of left-handers in the nightcap with the Cubs&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5134630\/shota-imanaga\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shota Imanaga<\/a> (0-1) facing the Guardians&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4619898\/parker-messick\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Parker Messick<\/a> (1-0).<\/p>\n<p>Imanaga was originally scheduled to pitch on Saturday night against Cecconi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND &#8212; The middle game of the weekend series between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Guardians was postponed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,4245,161,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-663746","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-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116349402104184155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663746","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=663746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}