{"id":676635,"date":"2026-04-16T01:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/676635\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T01:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:57:24","slug":"hoerner-drives-in-5-runs-imanaga-strikes-out-11-to-lead-cubs-past-phillies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/676635\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoerner drives in 5 runs, Imanaga strikes out 11 to lead Cubs past Phillies"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Nico Hoerner drove in a career-high five runs, Shota Imanaga struck out 11 in six strong innings and the Chicago Cubs routed the Philadelphia Phillies 11-2 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Dansby Swanson homered and Matt Shaw had three doubles and a pair of RBIs for the Cubs, who pounded out 15 hits to take the rubber match of the three-game set.<\/p>\n

Trea Turner and Bryce Harper homered for Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Imanaga (1-1) allowed three hits and walked one. <\/p>\n

Chicago went in front for good with three runs in the third inning off Jes\u00fas Luzardo (1-3). Hoerner\u2019s bloop single scored Shaw from second, tying the game at 1-all. After Alex Bregman walked, Hoerner and Bregman executed a double steal. Hoerner reached home when catcher J.T. Realmuto\u2019s throw went into left field. Bregman advanced to third on the error and scored on Luzardo\u2019s wild pitch.<\/p>\n

After Hoerner\u2019s two-run shot to left-center in the fifth gave the Cubs a four-run lead, Chicago tacked on four more runs in the sixth. Shaw\u2019s two-run double ended the night for Luzardo, and Horner capped the scoring with a two-run single against lefty reliever Kyle Backhus.<\/p>\n

Luzardo was battered for nine runs \u2014 eight earned \u2014 on 12 hits in 5 1\/3 innings, raising his ERA to 7.94.<\/p>\n

\"Chicago<\/p>\n

Chicago Cubs’ Matt Shaw scores past Philadelphia Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto during the third inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, April 15, 2026, in Philadelphia. Credit: AP\/Matt Rourke<\/p>\n

Imanaga settled in after surrendering Turner\u2019s homer to lead off the game.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia’s Kyle Schwarber went 0 for 4 with three strikeouts to end his on-base streak at 15 consecutive games.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Cubs: Return home to face the Mets for three games, beginning on Friday afternoon when Cubs RHP Edward Cabrera (1-0, 1.62 ERA) faces Mets RHP Kodai Senga (0-2, 7.07). <\/p>\n

Phillies: After an off day on Thursday, the Phillies open a three-game series against Atlanta on Friday night. Philadelphia RHP Taijuan Walker (1-2, 7.36) opposes Braves LHP Martin Perez (0-1, 3.14).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Nico Hoerner drove in a career-high five runs, Shota Imanaga struck out 11 in six strong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2397],"tags":[5,24,4,144,25,4216,40,2524],"class_list":{"0":"post-676635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-phillies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago-cubs","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","13":"tag-philadelphiaphillies","14":"tag-phillies","15":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116411908296094039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676635","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=676635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}