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No-hitter! Cubs make history behind starter Shota Imanaga vs. Pirates
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Date:2025-04-15 13:33:00
Led by starter Shota Imanaga, three Chicago Cubs pitchers combined to throw a no-hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates, the 18th in franchise history.
Imanaga kept the Pirates hitless for the first seven innings – removed from the game with 95 pitches – before handing the baton to Nate Pearson for the eighth and Porter Hodge the ninth in the Cubs' 12-0 win at Wrigley Field on Wednesday night.
It's the second combined no-hitter in Cubs history, three years after the team's first in 2021, when Zach Davies, Ryan Tepera, Andrew Chafin and Craig Kimbrel held the Dodgers without a hit.
An MLB rookie as a 31-year-old after a career in Japan, Imanaga is 12-3 with a 2.99 ERA in 26 starts this season and was named an All-Star.
"He actually didn't know he had a no-hitter going at all, which is funny," Cubs manager Craig Counsell told reporters after the game.
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Counsell got some boos for taking Imanaga out approaching 100 pitches and Chicago's skipper said it was "not fun to do."
"It's 100% about taking care of Shota and making sure we’re doing the right thing for him," Counsell said.
The Cubs went from 1972 (Milt Pappas) to 2008 (Carlos Zambrano) without a no-hitter, but have five in the past 16 years: Jake Arrieta (2015 and 2016), Alec Mills (2020) and the 2021 combined no-no. Wednesday marked the first Cubs no-hitter at Wrigley Field since Pappas more than 50 years ago.
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