{"id":672710,"date":"2026-04-10T20:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/672710\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T20:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:24:21","slug":"pirates-get-1st-hit-off-cubs-thielbar-in-7th-inning-after-imanaga-departs-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/672710\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates get 1st hit off Cubs&#8217; Thielbar in 7th inning after Imanaga departs :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Shota Imanaga pitched six dazzling innings for the Chicago Cubs on Friday before Ryan O&#8217;Hearn led off the seventh with a single to right off Caleb Thielbar for Pittsburgh&#8217;s first hit of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Imanaga struck out nine and walked one. He threw 100 pitches, 68 for strikes.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Hearn greeted Thielbar with a liner to right on a 1-1 slider. Bryan Reynolds drove Thielbar&#8217;s next pitch deep to left for his third homer, lifting the Pirates to a 2-0 lead on a chilly afternoon at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh got its first baserunner when Oneil Cruz walked with two down in the second. Imanaga then fanned rookie Konnor Griffin for the final out of the inning.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Imanaga went 0-1 with a 4.50 ERA in his first two starts of the season.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Shota Imanaga pitched six dazzling innings for the Chicago Cubs on Friday before Ryan O&#8217;Hearn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[58652,1769,5,138,24,4245,161,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-672710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-ap-sports","9":"tag-associated-press","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-cubs","13":"tag-chicagocubs","14":"tag-cubs","15":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116382286695962084","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672710","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=672710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}