{"id":282033,"date":"2025-10-06T16:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/282033\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T16:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:08:10","slug":"start-time-how-to-watch-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/282033\/","title":{"rendered":"Start time, how to watch \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/tag\/cubs-playoffs\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/tag\/cubs-playoffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Chicago Cubs<\/a> will attempt to tie their NL division series with the Milwaukee Brewers Monday night, with starting pitching Shota Imanaga at the mound. <\/p>\n<p>After coming off a nail-biter Wild Card series win against the San Diego Padres at Wrigley Field, the Cubs fell early on to Milwaukee Saturday in Game 1. The Brewers took a 1-0 series lead on Saturday by scoring all their runs in the first two innings of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nlds-cubs-brewers-1cc6325984459e2acca4d6e598a701d4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9-3 victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At least two more games are scheduled for the series, with one guaranteed to take place back at the Friendly Confines. <\/p>\n<p>As Game 2 approaches, here&#8217;s what to know. <\/p>\n<p>When do the Cubs play next? <\/p>\n<p>Game 2 of the Cubs and Brewers NL division series takes place Monday night at American Family Field in Milwaukee. First pitch is set for 8:08 p.m. Central.<\/p>\n<p>Like Game 1, the game will air on TBS, and will stream on HBO Max.<\/p>\n<p>Who is pitching? <\/p>\n<p>The Cubs plan to start left-hander Imanaga (9-8, 3.73 ERA in regular season), while the Brewers will use lefty Aaron Ashby (5-2, 2.16) as an opener.<\/p>\n<p>How likely is it that the Cubs can come back?<\/p>\n<p>According to MLB\u2019s Sarah Langs, teams that win Game 1 of a best-of-five series have gone on to win the series 72.4% of the time. That number has been slightly better under the Division Series\u2019 current 2-2-1 format, with the winning <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SlangsOnSports\/status\/1974664096533672308\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SlangsOnSports\/status\/1974664096533672308\">team of Game 1 winning the series 73.9% of the time.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That being said, the Cubs did win the season series against the Brewers, and they had Major League Baseball\u2019s best winning percentage in games coming off a loss, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamrankings.com\/mlb\/trend\/win_trends\/is_after_loss\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.teamrankings.com\/mlb\/trend\/win_trends\/is_after_loss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">going 47-24 in those games according to Fangraphs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When will the series shift to Wrigley Field?<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs and Brewers will shift their series to Wrigley for Games 3 and 4, if necessary, and as things stand now, Game 3 is set for an afternoon start, with first pitch at 4:08 p.m. Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Game 4, if necessary, is currently set to start at 8:08 p.m. Thursday, though that time could change depending on the outcomes of other series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Cubs will attempt to tie their NL division series with the Milwaukee Brewers Monday night, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":282034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[138400,1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-282033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-cubs-playoffs","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115328090524813858","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282033","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=282033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}