{"id":866009,"date":"2026-09-30T15:40:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866009\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T15:40:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:40:44","slug":"kevin-gausman-to-start-must-win-game-2-for-cubs-against-padres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866009\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Gausman to start must-win Game 2 for Cubs against Padres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gausman <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sahadevsharma\/status\/2105161750161379395\" rel=\"nofollow\">will start<\/a> Game 2 for the Cubs in their wild-card series against the San Diego Padres with his team facing elimination on Wednesday (Sportsnet, Sportsnet+, 10 p.m. ET \/ 7 p.m. PT).<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Blue Jay arrived in Chicago just before the trade deadline and went on to make nine starts for the club, posting a 4-2 record, 4.83 ERA and 1.23 WHIP with 57 strikeouts over 50.1 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Gausman faced the Padres once this season while with Toronto in July, tossing six innings with four hits, three runs, three walks and eight strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>He injured his left shoulder making a diving tag at third base in his most recent start Sept. 23 for the Cubs but was deemed healthy enough to be included on the post-season roster.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old made six appearances for the Blue Jays during last year&#8217;s post-seasons, registering a 2.93 ERA. <\/p>\n<p>Chicago was walloped 8-0 by the Padres in Game 1 of their wild-card series on Tuesday as starter Matthew Boyd was stung for four runs over four innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gausman will start Game 2 for the Cubs in their wild-card series against the San Diego Padres with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-866009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866009","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=866009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}