{"id":202583,"date":"2025-09-05T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202583\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:00:11","slug":"what-channel-is-chicago-cubs-game-on-today-pitching-matchup-javier-assad-vs-jake-irvin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202583\/","title":{"rendered":"What channel is Chicago Cubs game on today? Pitching matchup: Javier Assad vs Jake Irvin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing better than starting a great sports weekend than a Cubs game on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>And today, we&#8217;re in for a treat when the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/washington-nationals\/244\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Washington Nationals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Washington Nationals<\/a> travel to Chicago for the first of a three-game series with the Cubs, who are looking to secure a playoff spot for the first time in five years.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>But in order to watch the game, you&#8217;re going to need to stream it.<\/p>\n<p>What channel is Cubs vs Nationals game on<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Cubs-Nationals game will not be broadcast on TV.<\/p>\n<p>How to watch Cubs vs Nationals<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Cubs-Nationals game will stream live on Apple TV+ as part of &#8220;Friday Night Baseball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cubs vs Nationals schedule<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p>Cubs vs Nationals pitching matchups<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">Friday: Nationals (Jake Irvin, 8-20, 5.42 ERA) vs. Cubs (Javier Assad, 1-1, 4.05 ERA)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">Saturday: Nationals (Brad Lord (4-8, 4.34 ERA) vs. Cubs (Matthew Boyd, 12-7, 2.94 ERA)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">Sunday: Nationals (Andrew Alvarez, 1-0, 0.00 ERA) vs. Cubs (TBA)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Asbury Park Press: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.app.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/2025\/09\/05\/cubs-vs-nationals-friday-afternoon-apple-tv-streaming\/85988285007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nationals vs Cubs game today: How to watch;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Nationals vs Cubs game today: How to watch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s nothing better than starting a great sports weekend than a Cubs game on Friday afternoon. And today,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":202584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[111920,960,20167,6598,63313,5436,1266,62,67,132,68,1291],"class_list":{"0":"post-202583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-brad-lord","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-cubs","11":"tag-jake-irvin","12":"tag-javier-assad","13":"tag-matthew-boyd","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-washington-nationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115152291523513986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}