{"id":195939,"date":"2025-10-02T00:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/195939\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T00:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:13:07","slug":"cubs-padres-announce-game-3-starters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/195939\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs, Padres announce Game 3 starters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cubs, Padres announce Game 3 starters<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n

The San Diego Padres sent their ace, Dylan Cease, to the mound in an elimination game on Wednesday against the Chicago Cubs, and he delivered.<\/p>\n

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Although he couldn’t finish the fourth inning, Cease kept the Cubs off the board and left with a 1-0 lead. Third baseman Manny Machado would add a two-run home run in the fifth inning, and Padres’ bullpen held the Cubs scoreless.<\/p>\n

The Padres stayed alive with the 3-0 win in Game 2 and now it all comes down to the deciding Game 3. The Cubs and Padres announced their starting pitchers on Wednesday afternoon for Game 3 on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Padres, Cubs Reveal Game 3 Starters<\/p>\n

The Padres will have Yu Darvish start, and the Cubs will have Jameson Taillon start Game 3.<\/p>\n

Darvish has struggled in his 15 starts this season with a 5.38 ERA across 72 innings pitched. The Padres’ pitcher has plenty of veteran experience, and it could play a huge factor in an important Game 3 elimination game.<\/p>\n

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The Cubs will start Jameson Taillon in Game 3. The Padres will counter with former Cub Yu Darvish.<\/p>\n

Darvish is a five-time All-Star in his 13-year MLB career, and also spent three years with the Cubs from 2018 to 2020.<\/p>\n

On the Cubs side, Taillon has put together a strong season with a 3.68 ERA across 129.2 innings pitched. The Cubs’ starter has dealt with injuries this season, but gave up just two runs in his final 19 innings in the regular season.<\/p>\n

This is Taillon’s ninth year in the MLB and his third with the Cubs. Now, he’ll get a chance to face a former Cubs’ pitcher in an elimination game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cubs, Padres announce Game 3 starters originally appeared on The Sporting News The San Diego Padres sent their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[479,37404,17878,10004,363,2328,99,47127],"class_list":["post-195939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-dylan-cease","tag-jameson-taillon","tag-manny-machado","tag-mlb","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sports","tag-yu-darvish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}