{"id":919542,"date":"2026-07-07T22:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T22:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/919542\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T22:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T22:44:13","slug":"start-of-chicago-cubs-baltimore-orioles-game-delayed-by-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/919542\/","title":{"rendered":"Start of Chicago Cubs-Baltimore Orioles game delayed by rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE \u2014 The Chicago Cubs\u2019 final trip before the All-Star break is starting in a delay.<\/p>\n<p>After a discussion with Major League Baseball and the National Weather Service, a determination was made that rain in the area would affect the start of the Cubs\u2019 series opener against the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards, delaying Tuesday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>Left-hander Matthew Boyd is scheduled to make his penultimate start of the first half, looking to get rolling after injuries limited him to seven starts entering Tuesday. The 35-year-old is coming off a win June 30 against the San Diego Padres in which he allowed three runs and eight hits in five-plus innings with no walks.<\/p>\n<p>Boyd came off the injured list before his June 25 start after missing seven weeks following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/05\/06\/matthew-boyd-chicago-cubs-surgery\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">meniscectomy in his left knee<\/a>. He also missed two weeks in early April because of a biceps strain. The two IL stints have limited him to 33 2\/3 innings this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of what a pitcher needs, like Matt needs, is he needs to get on that consistent routine and to be on the pitch, bullpen, pitch,\u201d manager Craig Counsell said pregame Tuesday, \u201cnot the injured mode where you\u2019re rehabbing and protecting and you\u2019ve got to limit things. So I think we\u2019re back to that place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll get Matt in a good place in terms of making himself more consistent and execution improving, things like that. So I think we\u2019re in a good spot. He\u2019s had two good outings to start this, and hopefully as we\u2019re getting into this now, we\u2019re in a kind of normal season mode from Matt.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE \u2014 The Chicago Cubs\u2019 final trip before the All-Star break is starting in a delay. After a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":919543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[1276,371215,960,1271,371216,5386,1818,5436],"class_list":["post-919542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-camden-yards","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-cubs-rain-delay","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-matthew-boyd"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116881120691697824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919542","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=919542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}