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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Shota Imanaga is showing us his most legit stuff

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed Cubs left-hander Shota Imanaga's impressive outing in the club's 7-4 win against the Phillies on Tuesday.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Sneko Horner, they want me to give you a score better best t-shirt.

0:04.0

We did there.

0:05.0

See?

0:06.0

We are never afraid to co-op.

0:07.0

104 the score.

0:08.0

Let's go.

0:09.0

How about it?

0:10.0

See, now that's a man that's going to be a talk show home someday.

0:13.0

Afternoons on the score.

0:15.0

Harper takes strike three corn.

0:18.0

Two down. It's a strikeout for Showtime. I think he was struggling a little bit with the split tonight today, early in the game especially.

0:26.6

Didn't have it, didn't have the command of it maybe like he had in Philadelphia.

0:31.6

But sign of a really good pitcher when you can adjust to that and maybe a little more breaking ball

0:39.4

usage tonight.

0:42.5

Ball is in the ground a lot tonight, which is odd for Shoda, but it's not easy facing that

0:48.8

team again, you know, two starts in a row and he pitched really, really well.

0:55.1

He sure did.

0:56.1

Only three hits given up by Shoda in this start against the Phillies, which is the same

1:02.3

number that he gave up in the last start against the Phillies.

1:06.4

Against the Phillies so far this year, 13 innings pitched, two earn runs, 12 strikeouts for Shota.

1:13.7

And then there's the start against the Pirates where he had nine strikeouts.

1:18.1

I actually like the idea of Shota being in the ground a little bit more because it allows for him to play with eye level in a way where the thing with

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