{"id":295502,"date":"2025-10-11T20:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/295502\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T20:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:13:09","slug":"chicago-cubs-name-game-5-nlds-starter-vs-milwaukee-brewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/295502\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs name Game 5 NLDS starter vs. Milwaukee Brewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILWAUKEE \u2014 The Chicago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/10\/10\/chicago-cubs-milwaukee-brewers-game-5-pitching-preview\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cubs\u2019 all-arms-available approach<\/a> for Game 5 has them opting for an opener Saturday night in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran left-hander Drew Pomeranz gets the start in the Cubs\u2019 win-or-go-home final meeting versus the Brewers at American Family Field (7:08 p.m., TBS). The winner advances to play the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series.<\/p>\n<p>Pomeranz, 36, has thrown five perfect innings this postseason, including three against Milwaukee, striking out five of the 15 batters he\u2019s faced.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Thursday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/10\/08\/chicago-cubs-force-an-nlds-game-4-with-a-4-3-win-over-the-milwaukee-brewers-at-wrigley-field\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Game 4 starter Matthew Boyd<\/a>, manager Craig Counsell expects the other 11 pitchers on their NL Division Series roster to be available Saturday as they configure how to get 27 outs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s how we\u2019re treating it,\u201d Counsell said Friday. \u201cWe\u2019re certainly going to need the bullpen formula that we\u2019ve used. We\u2019re gonna have to get half the outs from guys not those five (high-leverage relievers), that\u2019s how we\u2019re looking at it, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to get.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs could have chosen lefty Shota Imanaga, who would\u2019ve started on normal rest. He might still factor into the outs equation in the same ballpark where his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/10\/06\/chicago-cubs-milwaukee-brewers-nlds-game-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">struggles in Game 2 left him sounding despondent postgame<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Brewers haven\u2019t announced a starter yet, but will be going with a bullpen game.<\/p>\n<p>More Cubs news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2014 The Chicago Cubs\u2019 all-arms-available approach for Game 5 has them opting for an opener Saturday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":295503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,1271,1816,32978,151003,5386,1818,4247,151002,151001],"class_list":{"0":"post-295502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-cubs","10":"tag-craig-counsell","11":"tag-drew-pomeranz","12":"tag-game-5-starter","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-illinois","15":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","16":"tag-nlds-game-5","17":"tag-shota-imagana"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115357365463567694","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295502","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=295502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}