Shota Imanaga excels in first home start with the Cubs!
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Exciting day for shoda to make his big league debut here at Wrigley Field the jerseys are flying off the shelves for shoda imanaga who endeared himself to CB fans in his opening press conference you may recall singing Go Cubs go so yeah here he is taking the field not a big
Guy boo like 510 a buck 75 but he knows how to pitch great career out in Japan so the fans get their first look at this 30-year-old left-hander all of those Rockies will be facing a guy making his major league debut 30-year-old left-hander shot imaga on the left had a
Nice long career with the Yokohama Bay Stars spending parts of eight seasons with them 25 strikeouts at 12 of two3 innings in Spring the pitch check swing did he go yes he did Gomes will retrieve it and quickly throw a first in time and there’s the first
Strike out first ball of the game is thrown out of play this one twoo and that will be for uh shota’s mantle there you see the split finger grip you see that tumbling action swing and a miss and they got him on the splitter 13 pitch at bat and imanaga
Wins the confrontation coming off the fast ball going with that split finger pitch left on left and he gets the job done swing and a miss and Diaz is gone struck him out talked a lot about imanaga and you know first time around the league trying to get to know the
Hitters and and and the adjustments he’s going to have to make in hitting and run scor but they were down in the bottom near the bottom of the leag that one got him looking and Doyle is gone this is strikeout number four from imaga of the looking variety fast ball at 94 clipping
The inside corner at the knees in there got him Jones Is Gone Taylor McGregor two and two Lefty deals swing and a miss that’s a half dozen strikeouts for Sha imanaga and the Lefty has been on point here this afternoon no score as we go to the bottom of the
Fourth swing and a miss struck him out and got him for the second time swing and a miss struck him out eight punch outs for sha imanaga his major league debut and he has been brilliant line drive at a base hit out into center field and that is the first hit of the
Day for the Rockies and the fans will give shot imanaga here in his major league debut a nice Ovation the strikeout number nine fans want to see it ahead one and two here comes got him Jones down on strikes nine punch outs in his major league debut sha imanaga with six shutout innings
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