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CHICAGO \u2014 Cubs<\/a> opening day starter Matthew Boyd<\/a> has completed a minor league rehab assignment and is expected to return to Chicago<\/a>\u2019s rotation by next weekend.<\/p>\n

Boyd, an All-Star in 2025, is coming back from a second stint on the injured list this season. He\u2019s recovering from surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee, a freak injury he suffered while he was playing with his kids at home on May 4.<\/p>\n

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The 35-year-old left-hander completed a five-inning rehab start at Triple-A Iowa, allowing five runs on seven hits while striking out seven. He threw 83 pitches, 64 for strikes.<\/p>\n

Boyd was in the Cubs\u2019 clubhouse before their game against San Francisco<\/a>. His return figures to be a boost to Chicago\u2019s injury-wracked rotation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s healthy. Everything\u2019s good,\u201d manager Craig Counsell said. \u201cGot to the 80-pitch mark, which is a good thing. So he\u2019ll be active on this road trip at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boyd missed three weeks in April with a biceps strain. He\u2019s made only five starts in 2026 and is 2-1 with a 6.00 ERA. Last season, Boyd was 14-8 with 3.21 ERA in 31 starts.<\/p>\n

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Slumping Swanson sits again<\/p>\n

Two-time Gold Glove-winning shortstop Dansby Swanson<\/a> was held out of the Cubs\u2019 lineup for a second straight game because of ongoing struggles at the plate.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old Swanson entered batting .180, third worst among regular players in the majors. Over his last 14 games, the two-time All-Star has six hits in 46 at-bats for a .130 average.<\/p>\n

Counsell said Swanson probably would start when the Cubs open a three-game series at Colorado<\/a>. After that, the Cubs will play a weekend series against the Giants in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Nico Hoerner<\/a> moved from second base to shortstop again. Pedro Ramirez was at second for slumping Chicago, which entered having lost 19 of 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 Cubs opening day starter Matthew Boyd has completed a minor league rehab assignment and is expected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,4245,167,576,161,733,2000,4,33,4580,378,90119,4271],"class_list":["post-720738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-colorado","tag-craig-counsell","tag-cubs","tag-dansby-swanson","tag-matthew-boyd","tag-mlb","tag-nico-hoerner","tag-rehab-assignment","tag-san-francisco","tag-slumping-swanson","tag-the-cubs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116715537287850441","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720738","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=720738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}